Gabrielle McFadden (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Minister of State for his reply. I acknowledge and welcome his support and encouragement as it is refreshing. The elderly have worked all their lives, paid their taxes and never got anything for nothing nor looked for anything for nothing. They deserve the best. I urge the Minister of State to look at a system whereby geriatrician and nursing teams go specifically to nursing homes, community centres and elderly people's own homes to stop them having to go to hospital.