Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The Taoiseach promised increased funding for home care packages and more home help hours. That promise has been clearly broken. Apart from that, the Taoiseach mentioned medically assessed need. I have told people what the Taoiseach said to me in the House six weeks ago, that people with such an assessed need would not be cut, there would be sensitivity and so on.

They just laughed at me and asked whether I and the Taoiseach were for real. This is not what is occurring on the ground. People are being left without a service that they clearly need.

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