Frank O'Rourke (Kildare North, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

My Kildare North constituency is covered by CHO 7, Kildare-west Wicklow, where 326 people are waiting for a home care package. In Dún Laoghaire, covered by CHO 6, no one is waiting for a home care package.

Why is that the case? Is it down to management, funding or both? Why is the model used in CHO 6 not rolled out to all areas where there are significant waiting lists such as CHO 7?

On hospital discharges, a patient who needs home care will be discharged with a medical team's recommendations, to be implemented by the HSE home care team. Instead of implementation, there is challenge. We get this feedback in the constituency. The recommendations are challenged by the HSE home care team, which leads to delayed discharge and results in the patient being stressed and bed blocking. Can this process be looked into and reviewed?

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