Thomas Gould (Cork North-Central, Sinn Fein)
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234. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality where a parent can seek home help support for a person with disabilities under 18 years-of-age. [17872/26]

Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The HSE provides a range of assisted living services including home support services to support individuals to maximise their capacity to live full and independent lives. Home support services are provided to both children and adults with a wide range of disabilities from physical and sensory disabilities to intellectual disabilities and autism. The home support service assists the person with everyday tasks to enable them to live at home or with family. It is, therefore, also an important support to families and carers.

As the Deputy may be aware, Paediatric Home Care Packages (PHCPs) are intensive nurse-led packages of care for children complex medical and nursing needs. Children with Complex Healthcare Needs (CCHN) are children who have substantial healthcare needs because of one or more congenital, acquired or chronic conditions and who have functional limitations that often require the assistance of medical technology and ongoing nursing care at home to support their parents to care for them. The PHCP service is not the same as home support. It is funded through HSE Primary Care and, as such, falls within the remit of my colleague, the Minister for Health.

As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.

Thomas Gould (Cork North-Central, Sinn Fein)
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235. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality where a parent can seek home help support for a person with disabilities over 18 years-of-age. [17873/26]

Emer Higgins (Dublin Mid West, Fine Gael)
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The HSE provides a range of assisted living services including home support services to support individuals to maximise their capacity to live full and independent lives. Home support services are provided to both children and adults with a wide range of disabilities from physical and sensory disabilities to intellectual disabilities and autism. The home support service assists the person with everyday tasks to enable them to live at home or with family. It is, therefore, also an important support to families and carers.

As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible.