Eoin Ó Broin (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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2883. To ask the Minister for Health if intensive care packages are currently available to persons in need of such supports; and the procedure for persons to apply for such intensive care packages. [39476/21]

Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The Home Support Service is a core service for older people and is highly valued by service users, their families and by the HSE. The HSE’s National Service Plan for 2021 target is to deliver over 24.2million hours of home support

- 23.9 million home support hours to 55,675 people

- 360,000 hours to 235 people through intensive home support packages

This is 5 million hours more than the 2020 target and represents a substantial increase in service provision.

Applications for home support are submitted locally. Intensive Home Care Packages are managed at national level and targets are not assigned to individual CHOs. The Budget for these packages in 2021 is approximately €9 million. I recommend that the person in question contacts the local health office or public health nurse to discuss what options may be available to them in the first instance.