Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to deal with particular issues in north Louth. People are going without home care in the harder-to-reach areas of north County Louth. We need to deal with the issues of pay and expenses. We cannot look at home care in isolation. It is part of the overall situation in respect of acute care. The hospital system does not work because home care packages take too long to put in place. We need to ensure we have more stepdown facilities, particularly in County Louth, because the RCSI hospital group is under severe pressure.

It provides the supports when it can but we really need to look at this.

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