Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I fully appreciate that I am being asked exactly the same questions. The answer is the same as last week. There is not a single cohort we can point to. Perhaps this is part of what needs further explanation. The clinical judgement from the HSE, as the Deputy said, is that those in the formal caring sector are in cohort 2 and that family carers as a group are not in any individual cohort. Different carers who are in different positions themselves may fall into different cohorts, based on age, for example, and so forth.

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