Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

An additional €5 million was provided this year to provide an additional 400 home care packages to the benefit of 600 people. The waiting time for a package varies from region to region quite significantly, which is a real difficulty. The HSE has been given flexibility to spend more on home care packages where it is running into trouble in staffing units. Where the HSE cannot get nursing staff to open a community unit, it can divert funding to additional home care packages. That is actually being done.

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