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Wednesday, 26 July 2017

Department of Health

Home Care Packages Funding

Photo of Clare DalyClare 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]

Photo of Jim DalyJim 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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