TD calls for emergeny Dáil debate on plans to slash home help hours

The Dáil must hold an urgent debate on HSE plans to slash new home help hours when it returns on Tuesday amid fears families will be left with "no choice" other than to send their elderly relatives to nursing homes.

TD calls for emergeny Dáil debate on plans to slash home help hours

The Dáil must hold an urgent debate on HSE plans to slash new home help hours when it returns on Tuesday amid fears families will be left with "no choice" other than to send their elderly relatives to nursing homes.

Independent TD and former communications minister, Denis Naughten, has demanded the move in a letter to the Dáil's ceann comhairle, Sean Ó Fearghail, saying no other parliamentary work should take place until answers are given.

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