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Summary
Senator Walsh argues that cuts are a false economy because keeping people at home costs less than HSE residential care, and urges the Minister to reverse them.
I encourage the Leader to arrange the debate. The cuts are a false economy. The cost of retaining people in their homes is a fraction of the cost of being taken into the care of the HSE. I appeal for the Minister to reverse his decisions. Savings are about options and choices but the choices being made by the Government are far from sensible.