Bernard Durkan (Kildare North, Fine Gael)
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Question 220: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the reason home help hours have been restricted; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9750/08]

Mary Harney (Dublin Mid West, Progressive Democrats)
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The new funding package of €22m provided in the recent Budget is designed to enhance a range of important community initiatives, including €4.6 million additional expenditure by the HSE for 200,000 extra Home-Help hours this year. The Executive therefore expect to provide a total of around 11.98 million Home-Help hours nationally in 2008, to benefit in excess of 53,000 people. This is over and above the 11.78 million hours provided in 2007.