Home help service cuts
Broughan condemns continuing reductions in home-help hours for vulnerable older people and urges action; the Chair rules the policy complaint outside the Order of Business.
-----and excited about the fact that the then Fianna Fáil-Green Party Government was imposing savage cuts on home help services. It is the Tánaiste's watch now and this is going on. People are suffering.
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I just want the Tánaiste to know this. I can give him chapter and verse.
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This is not the type of policy that any Labour Party member would pursue.
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I want to allow one other Deputy to contribute, so I ask the Tánaiste to respond in regard to the Bill.
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There are a number of health Bills. The consultative process on the health (amendment) (No. 2) Bill is under way and it is expected the Bill will be published this year. Further heads have been approved for the health (amendment) Bill and it is expected to be published this session. The Health (Provision of General Practitioner Services) Bill has already been enacted. A number of other pieces of legislation are expected either late this year or early next year.