Home Care Packages Dail Éireann — 2023-06-01 ============================================================ Mary Butler (FF), Waterford I did not interrupt the Deputy. This was an increase of about 250,000 hours on the same period in 2022. I thank Home and Community Care Ireland and Joseph Musgrave for their interaction with the HSE as we develop this tender. A huge number of hours have gone into putting it and the recommendations of the advisory group in place. I am delighted to say the statutory instrument authorising the assurance of 1,000 emergency permits for home care workers was signed in December, with 68 permits issued to date. --- 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/2023-06-01/debate/main Retrieved: 2026-08-14T04:51:59+00:00 Sitting date: 2023-06-01