Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

If home help is provided through an agency or the HSE and the person is working with a vulnerable adult or in contact with children there will be vetting. If I decided to recruit a home help on a private basis to cook my meals every evening, on the assumption I am neither a child nor a vulnerable adult vetting would have no particular role. It would be a private arrangement and not done through an organisation, a business or the HSE and so would fall outside the legislation. However, professional home help organisations providing care for vulnerable adults or children will have to be vetted under the legislation.