Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government commits to integrated "health care delivery, in which the right care is delivered in the right place". Today we have learned that a number of tracheotomy babies in Our Lady's Children's Hospital in Crumlin are well enough to go home but cannot because the HSE has not sanctioned safe levels of home care and this is at the worst crisis level ever. Do we need legislation to provide for this home care or can the Minister for Health address the need for a central funding scheme and for a protocol for a safe home care package in order that these seven children can be at home where they deserve to be?

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