Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

It is already well into the winter and, for the first time since records began, the number of hospital patients without beds during 2018 has exceeded 100,000. It is not yet 1 December. However, throughout the country home care packages and home help hours are being curtailed or are being awarded but not funded due to the lack of funding. They are one solution to this problem. The Government cannot even blame doctors and nurses because the Christmas holidays have not started yet. Will the Tánaiste comment on the position with home care packages and home help hours, which would help alleviate the crisis in accident and emergency departments?

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