Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)

We have provided the health service with funding which will enable it to increase the numbers of people working in the health service, including in community healthcare, like healthcare assistants. I will ask the Minister for Health and the HSE to directly revert to the Deputy on the situation in south Tipperary and see what can be done to assist. The HSE should be in the business of seeking to recruit more people. Sometimes there can be challenges in identifying appropriate people but I know the human consequences of waiting times for people trying to access home help. I will ask the Minister, Deputy Carroll MacNeill, and the HSE to come back to the Deputy directly.

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