Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I reiterate my colleague's comments. Today, I received a reply to a parliamentary question on the number of people in Waterford and south Kilkenny waiting on home help packages. That number is 124. We are facing into winter, we are concerned about our older generation and the number of people on trolleys is a major issue. If home care packages are not in place to provide step-down facilities for people coming out of acute beds, the issue will grow much worse before we see the winter surge.

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