313. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a HSE directive to home carers prohibiting them from administering medicated cream (such as difene cream) to someone they are caring for; to explain the logic of what we understand is a change in policy; the reason patients are expected to administer medicated creams like this if they are unable to do so themselves, do not have relatives and in circumstances where public health nurses do not administer it either; if she will review this policy; if she will explore whether it may be possible for a patient to consent to such medicated creams being administered by their carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30918/25]

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313. Deputy Ciarán Ahern asked the Minister for Health if her attention has been drawn to a HSE directive to home carers prohibiting them from administering medicated cream (such as difene cream) to someone they are caring for; to explain the logic of what we understand is a change in policy; the reason patients are expected to administer medicated creams like this if they are unable to do so themselves, do not have relatives and in circumstances where public health nurses do not administer it either; if she will review this policy; if she will explore whether it may be possible for a patient to consent to such medicated creams being administered by their carers; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [30918/25]

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