Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I will follow up on the issue relating to the healthcare worker.

On home care, I am not familiar with the letter but I share the Deputy's view that this is a very nervous time for lots of people, including people deciding whether or not to resume these services and so on at a time when they are cocooning and that there should be a degree of flexibility and discretion shown. We are eager that people feel comfortable to resume home care again and to have vital supports back in their home but I understand that different people will think differently on that. I will pursue it with the HSE and the Deputy might provide me with the correspondence.

On A Vision for Change, my hope, if not expectation, is that a new Government will be formed in June. I would like to see it bring A Vision for Change to the Government in its first weeks. The document is ready but traditionally new policy initiatives are not taken to Government, that they need to be owned by the new Government. It is something with which the new Government should hit the ground running. It has been through Cabinet committee. My colleague, the Minister of State, Jim Daly, has put much work into it and it is ready. We should aspire to have it published in June. If a new Government is not formed in June, I can introduce it on behalf of the current Government. We should commit to publishing it then.

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