Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We run a social care model for day care and meals on wheels. I was abroad last year, representing Ireland as the Minister of State with responsibility for older people, at an event organised by the UN that included approximately 40 different ministers. The number of people who came to talk to me about the social care model we have in Ireland was unbelievable. There is still a medical model in, for example, the UK.

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