I want to ask the Taoiseach about a number of issues concerning the programme for Government relating to health, particularly the care of older people in community care. The programme for Government clearly states that:

Investment in the supply of more and better care for older people in the community and in residential settings would be a priority of this Government.

Additional funding will be provided each year for the care of older people. This funding will go to more residential places, more home care packages and the delivery of more home help and other professional community care services.

The Fair Deal system of financing nursing home care will be reviewed with a view to developing a secure and equitable system of financing community and long-term care.

Those are clear commitments in the programme for Government and I want the Taoiseach to confirm that we can look forward in the coming days to funding being provided to ensure more home helps, more professional community care services and more residential places.

Regarding the commitment to establish an integrated care agency under the aegis of the Minister for Health, when can we expect the establishment of that agency? On the area of bio-ethics, as per the programme for Government, can the Taoiseach outline when we can expect legislation to clarify the law surrounding assisted human reproduction, including the law relating to personal relationships arising from assisted human reproduction? That is a clear commitment in the programme for Government. Second, there is a commitment to legislate to regulate stem cell research. When can we expect that legislation?

What was the last one?

Stem cell research.

I will have to come back to the Deputy on those.

I thought the Taoiseach might have to do that.

I do not have the details of the work that has been done on them. On the community-based services, to which the Deputy referred, €392 million was allocated to the HSE for 2013 to provide 10.3 million hours of home help service for approximately 50,000 clients, and 10,870 people are in receipt of home care packages, day care and respite services and meals on wheels. Clearly, all these issues have to be considered by the Cabinet in respect of the provision of the budget for health for 2014. The Minister, Deputy Reilly, has had to make some difficult decisions during the past two years in order to turn this structure into one that is more effective and that has meant some difficulties in terms of structural changes but it has resulted in fewer patients on waiting lists, fewer patients on trolleys and fewer personnel delivering front-line services with fewer resources. Shape is being put on a very difficult situation in health and these issues, to which the Deputy referred, will be part of the decision-making process between now and next Tuesday. I will come back to the Deputy on his question regarding assisted human reproduction and stem cell research.

I also asked about the integrated care agency.

I will come back to the Deputy on that.