Trevor Ó Clochartaigh (Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The Minister of State, in fairness to him, is misconstruing my comments. The fear comes from the road down which home care has gone and the shambles it is in. In some cases older people have seen their home care times cut to a 15 minute visit per day during which somebody has to be washed and cleaned. People have seen we have gone down the private route with those types of services and are fearful of the same happening in this type of scenario. The Minister of State knows that and can understand why we are opposing the section on that basis.