Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Earlier this year, the Government promised it would find a mechanism whereby it would be possible to transfer some of the money from the fair deal scheme across to people who need more hours of home help. We have been waiting for this when last week, we read in the papers that the Government will means test the elderly to see if they will pay for some of the public home help they receive. I remind the Taoiseach that most of the elderly receive only a quarter of an hour each day, some of them half an hour daily, and occasionally two or two and a half hours in total weekly. Very few get any home help on Saturdays, Sundays or bank holidays.

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