Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am raising yet again the issue of homecare packages. Three weeks ago I referred to the plight of an 18 year old girl, Hannah Donnelly from Drogheda who has been in hospital for over two and a half years. For the last 19 months she has been in hospital because she has been denied an adequate homecare package. It is three weeks since I raised the case and I have written to the Minister for Health, Deputy Harris, and the Minister of State, Deputy Finian McGrath, about it. It appears that neither of them has intervened to secure Hannah's homecare package. At this stage I am wondering. She is 18 years of age and has been waiting for 19 months for a homecare package. She is desperate to get home and her parents are desperate to have her home. Is it that the Minister simply does not care enough? Why has he not looked into the case? How is it that the Government-----

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