• Home Instead employees from outside Europe forced to resign due to inability to secure visa, adding to carer shortages
• Home care remains on ineligible skills list for employment despite recommendations that it be removed.
• Over 6,000 people, already approved for home care by the HSE, remain on waiting lists, caused by shortage of available carers
• 21% of employees who left at one Dublin Home Instead Office forced to resign because of inability to secure work permit.
• Calls for Government to immediately remove Home Care Sector from the ineligible skills list in order to help alleviate unprecedented demand for home care
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