Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The home help service is a hugely valuable service throughout the country that is enabling people to stay longer in their homes.

Families and people who avail of the service build up a rapport with the home help staff they have been working with for two, three, four or maybe ten years. Now, the HSE has, in its wisdom, said that it will rotate the home care assistants and that they will only be working with a patient for one week out of every three or four. There would be no continuity in the care that is provided in people's homes. It is a retrograde step and I ask the Taoiseach and Government to look at it. I think the rapport that is built up gives comfort to the patient and builds up a rapport with the home care assistant too. I would like to have that review stopped.

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