Arthur Morgan (Louth, Sinn Fein)
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Question 199: To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Health and Children when funding for additional hours of home help will issue to Health Service Executive areas; the number of additional hours which will be covered by extra funding; when contracts for home help personnel will commence; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [8057/06]

Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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As the Deputy will be aware, additional funding of €150 million was allocated to services for older people or palliative care in the 2006 budget. Of this, an extra €33 million was allocated to the home help service. Of this total a sum of €30 million is provided for 2006 and will deliver 1.75 million home help hours.

The Deputy's specific questions relate to the management and delivery of home help service, which are the responsibility of the Health Service Executive under the Health Act 2004. Accordingly, the Department has requested the parliamentary affairs division of the executive to arrange to have this matter investigated and to have a reply issued directly to the Deputy.