20% of home help cash not spent
Local authorities failed to spend some €200m of their €1bn budget for home helps last year, according to preliminary health ministry figures.
Unions claim working conditions and service levels have deteriorated because of a price war in the sector.
Responsibility for organising home helps was transferred from central to local government in 2006.
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