Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government contains a lot of talk on home care and home help packages. Is the Tánaiste aware that in some parts of the State no extra home help hours have been allocated for the past two months? The north Cork and the Duhallow regions in particular are waiting on a home help organiser within the region. No further home help hours have been allocated since the middle of July.

There are patients who have been discharged from hospital and others who are awaiting discharge notices and trying to return to their own communities and families for whom no home help has been allocated. It is a disgrace. Is the Tánaiste aware of the crisis within this sector?

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