According to the programme for Government and the Department of Health, the provision of funding for home help is to assist elderly people to stay in their homes for as long as possible. The Minister for Health is not here but I need an answer from him in relation to €40 million that he made available for health services in June. Kerry was to receive €900,000 of this for the provision of extra home help in the county. The opposite is happening. One old man had the two hours of home help he had cut to an hour. Another elderly man of 95 years of age is paying €240 for his own home help and to go to the day centre for extra home help. Where is the €900,000 gone? I need an answer on this because the HSE is not giving us any reasonable answer as to where the money is or what it is doing with it. It is certainly not going into home help anyway.

I can tell Deputy Healy-Rae that he looked well down at the National Ploughing Championships when I met him.

The Taoiseach was not looking too bad himself.

The HSE service plan awarded €330 million for this area with a target of 10.4 million home help hours to support about 47,800 people, 15,450 home care packages and 190 intensive home care packages for patients and people who had very serious needs, including dementia. In respect of these matters that were arising, the Government supplied an extra €40 million in 2016. There was €20 million for once-off time-related savings, €10 million to support service provision during the summer months and €10 million of that was ring-fenced for home care as part of the new winter initiative. I suggest that the Deputy contact his local home care person in charge to see what extent of that €10 million has been allocated to the area for dealing with cases that are needy.