Michael Healy-Rae (Kerry South, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The most cost effective, best and nicest way to take care of our elderly population is to take care of them in their own homes. The Taoiseach's response yesterday on letters that have been sent about cutting home help hours has caused more confusion instead of answering the question. With regard to home help hours and our elderly, will the Taoiseach give an assurance to our honourable elderly people, whom we adore and respect, that every person who wishes to stay in their own home and to receive home help and home care will be able to do so, and that they will not be forced into a more costly means of care by sending them to private or State nursing homes?

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