Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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461. To ask the Minister for Health the additional home support hours required by 2031 (details supplied). [42269/18]

Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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The HSE has begun streamlining home care services by introducing a single funded home support service in 2018. This brings together the funding for home help and standard home care packages which now operates as a single home support service from 2018 onwards. The HSE’s 2018 National Service Plan provides for a target of some:

- 17.094m home support hours to be provided to 50,500 people, which compares with last year’s 16.34m hours delivered to 50,000 people (home help and home hours combined). This is an increase on the 2017 provision of 754,000 hours to 500 more people;

- 235 intensive home support packages will provide 360,000 home support hours for people with complex needs.

A further initiative saw 324 people being provided with Home Support services in the context of the adverse weather earlier this year.

I have asked the HSE to reply directly to the Deputy in relation to the projected converted hours required by 2031.