Peter Fitzpatrick (Louth, Fine Gael)
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268. To ask the Minister for Health his plans to standardise and register home care workers in cases involving carers who are documented and regularised in their immigration status for the home care industry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29464/18]

Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Immigration policy is not within the remit of the Minister for Health.

The Department of Health is currently engaged in the development of a new statutory home-care scheme and a system of regulation for home-care services.  This is a complex process and a significant amount of preparatory work remains to be undertaken before decisions are reached on the form of the home-care scheme and the system of regulation.  However, the process will consider, amongst other issues, workforce planning and regulatory matters including the registration of providers, training for care-workers and national quality standards.