A new paper outlines how there is an ‘urgent need’ to secure a supply of health and social care workers.

Minister for Health Jennifer Carroll MacNeill said the findings will ‘help us plan better’.

Simon Harris also said the state is too reliant on private nursing home care.

The First Minister said Stormont ministers need to work together to fix the issues facing the under-pressure system.

The TV presenter grilled Wes Streeting over the ‘recruitment crisis’ in the social care sector and ‘terrible lack of underfunding’.

The Taoiseach said it would have caused a problem if the Government had inserted really strong language on care in the Constitution

The main care recipients are younger siblings and grandparents or other older relatives. More than half of young caregivers care for multiple people