Eamon Scanlon (Sligo-Leitrim, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

To follow on from those figures, in March 2019, 105 people in Sligo-Leitrim were waiting for home help. By July, that figure had increased to 227, which is an increase of 122 or 120%. I am sure the numbers have not fallen since then. Yet I speak to people employed full time by the HSE to provide home care whose hours are being reduced. I cannot understand it. It is time for the Government to say whether it will provide home help because that seems to be the way it is. No hours are being provided in Sligo-Leitrim for anybody. As Deputy Curran noted, people have been in hospital for months and cannot get out of there because they have nobody to mind them.

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