Care Services Dail Éireann — 2023-05-23 ============================================================ Mary Butler (FF), Waterford We run a social care model for day care and meals on wheels. I was abroad last year, representing Ireland as the Minister of State with responsibility for older people, at an event organised by the UN that included approximately 40 different ministers. The number of people who came to talk to me about the social care model we have in Ireland was unbelievable. There is still a medical model in, for example, the UK. --- Source: Houses of the Oireachtas. Licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). The Official Report is revised after first publication; the fetch timestamp below identifies the version quoted. Record URI: https://data.oireachtas.ie/akn/ie/debateRecord/dail/2023-05-23/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:51:56+00:00 Sitting date: 2023-05-23