Written answers
Wednesday, 26 July 2017
Department of Health
Home Care Packages Funding
Clare Daly (Dublin Fingal, Independent)
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804. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to increase funding for the public home care sector [35429/17]
Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Home care services are provided on the basis of assessed health-care need carried out by health care professionals and there is no means-testing. The HSE provides services both directly and through service agreements with private and voluntary sector provider. The Programme for Government commits to increasing funding for Home Care Packages and Home Help every year. The planning and management of future health expenditure will be considered as part of the annual estimates and budgetary process which seeks to balance available funding across all of the various service areas to achieve the best possible outcomes for the greatest number of service users and prioritise areas of greatest need.
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