Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

There is an absolute chronic shortage of home care workers. We have a complete crisis in the delivery of home care. When the Taoiseach says that there are 20.4 million hours – a 17% increase – it means nothing to the man in his 90s who has been approved for two home help visits a day but cannot get them. He has been unable to leave hospital since 25 September. Another man in his 80s has been unable to leave hospital since August. Is there ever an evaluation done of the policies? This was a Fianna Fáil policy, as the Taoiseach knows, in 2008 and 2009, to destroy home care in the way that it did. What are we doing to fix it? I have a thick file on what happened in 2008 and 2009 in home care.

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