Disability Services
Dail Éireann — 2023-05-30
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Seán Canney (IND), Galway East

I agree wholeheartedly with that and I commend the Department on what is happening there but I will say one thing. When a person who is getting disability allowance gets married or partners with somebody who is working, their disability allowance is reduced to about €40 on the basis that their household income has now changed. That flies in the face of everything we are trying to achieve. There is also a lack of transport supports for people who want to go to work. The primary medical certificate is a disaster. We keep talking about these things. The Department of Finance is involved in one part of it and the Department of Social Protection is involved in something else. At the end of the day, we need to make sure every policy that is put in place is disability-proofed. We need to do that but we need not do the paperwork. We need to see the action on the ground first.

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Sitting date: 2023-05-30