Michael Collins (Cork South West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

In the programme for Government the Government promised to increase home help hours to provide seven-day cover per week. We learn now that the HSE has issued an embargo directing no new home help hours are to be allocated to new patients. The HSE is also seeking a reduction in the number of hours being rolled out in west Cork. This is shocking news for those in west Cork who have a home help service and for many new families who urgently require one. It is shocking also for home help workers who provide a top-class service under enormous pressure.

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