Patricia Ryan (Kildare South, Sinn Fein)
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280. To ask the Minister for Health if the home support legislation which provides home care supports for all will make sure older people are equal in inclusion of supports (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [21022/23]

Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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Work is ongoing in my Department to progress the development of the new home support scheme within the broader context of the ongoing reform of our health and social care system, as envisaged in the Sláintecare Report. The scheme will provide equitable access to high-quality services based on a person’s assessed care-needs.

My Department is currently developing a regulatory framework for home-support providers with the aim of ensuring that all service-users are provided with high-quality care. This framework will comprise primary legislation for the licensing of providers, secondary legislation in the form of regulations (minimum requirements), and HIQA national standards. The statutory home support scheme will incorporate a reformed model of service-delivery, which will include the roll out of interRAI as the standard care needs assessment tool.