Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

It is time to do exactly that. As a Government, we want to make sure older people can live in their own homes for as long as is possible. In the past, we have a lot of additional resources into homecare for that reason. The barrier to receiving those services was a lack of finance, but it is now not a lack of finance but a shortage of homecare workers, which we are really struggling with at the moment. As a Government, we have decided to establish a commission on care. That is in the programme for Government. We were not able to get it up and running because there were a number of other commissions doing work on pensions, defence and the media, but we agreed at party leader level on Monday that we would get the commission on care established before the summer. It will be able to look at some of these issues, which I think will be very valuable.

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