Authors of a new report say it's time some people in NI started paying for the care they receive at home

Is it time people started paying for the care they receive in their homes? That's one of the recommendations from a long-awaited report into the challenges facing social care here in Northern Ireland. The report was commissioned by Sinn Féin's Stormont leader Michelle O'Neill when she was health minister and written by two social care academics based in England. It says that domiciliary care - that's the personal care and help with household tasks that people receive in their own homes - should be means-tested. At the moment it's provided free-of-charge across the board. Chris spoke to John Kennedy who is one of the authors of the report, and got the views of commentator Brendan Mulgrew.