Questions from Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - PQ 38071-26

To ask the Minister for Health the number of healthcare assistants and home support workers employed across the public health service in each of the past five years; the number of people waiting for home support packages in each of those years; the proportion of the long-term care workforce who are foreign-born compared to the OECD average of 20.6%; the progress that has been made toward the introduction of a statutory home support scheme as committed to in the Programme for Government.