Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I could not agree with any contribution from any Deputy more than I agree with that last contribution. That is, of course, why we want the delivery of a statutory home care scheme underpinned by statute and guaranteed. That is why I have undertaken that project which began two years ago. As I said previously, it took nine years to bring the fair deal scheme from concept to reality. I have committed to doing this within three years whether I am there to finish it or not and whoever is there will hopefully get it across the line within three years. That is absolutely the preferred model and the only way we will eliminate all of the ills within the current system which is ad hoc, not fully funded, based on a postcode lottery, dependent on the availability of staff and has variables the length and breadth of the country and so on and so forth, as many Deputies know.

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