Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

As the Minister of State will be aware, the home support workers have signed a new contract meaning they will be on a five-over-seven-day rotation to provide home care support. I welcome this and have always supported it. However, issues have already arisen as the HSE does not seem to have an IT system to allow the different CHOs to deal with rostering. Is the Minister of State aware of the issue and does he have plans to solve it?

As I said in my opening statement, for the workers who have signed the new contract, anyone who works 39 hours is entitled to four hours' travel. This funding needs to be found under money allocated already, which is why these savage cuts are happening. Does the Minister of State have any plans to address this?

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