Barry Cowen
Question:82. Deputy Barry Cowen asked the Minister for Health the number of home support hours that will be provided to older persons in counties Laois and Offaly during 2022. [7947/22]
View answerTuesday, 15 February 2022
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The Government is committed to improving community-based services, shifting care to the home and offering greater choice for older people. In 2020, additional funding of €150 million was secured for home support to progress the development of a reformed model of service delivery to underpin the statutory scheme for the financing and regulation of home-support services and to provide for up to 5 million additional hours of home support last year. Preliminary information shows that about 2.9 million more hours were delivered by the end of December compared to the same period in 2020. I'm pleased to say that the funding to provide for up to 5 million additional hours has been maintained into 2022.
In CHO 8, the plan is to deliver over 2.3 million hours of home support this year, of which 580,542 hours is planned for counties Laois and Offaly.