Over 1,600 older people are on the waiting list for home-support packages.
Nearly 1,100 are in Kildare, west Wicklow or parts of west and south Dublin.
The midwest of the country's also badly hit - but the national figure's down from over 7,800 before the Covid-19 pandemic.
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