Written answers
Tuesday, 28 November 2017
Department of Health
Home Care Packages Provision
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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310. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a report on all care companies providing home care in CH06; the number of persons in receipt of care packages; the number of these that are being fulfilled; the number that are waiting for a carer; the number of times each company has withdrawn its services from a service user in 2016; the reason for same; if he has satisfied himself that there are enough care companies and carer's employed by the HSE to fulfil the need; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49879/17]
Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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311. To ask the Minister for Health if he will report on the system of home care either in house, with the HSE or with private companies; the way in which the services are allocated; the way in which a person with a home care package accesses these services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [49880/17]
Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 310 and 311 together.
As these are service matters I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
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