Disability Services
Dail Éireann — 2021-10-19
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Duncan Smith (LAB), Dublin Fingal

The disability capacity review document is very good and sets out what needs to be done and how to get there.
I will submit further parliamentary questions because we need more information, although I appreciate that the Minister of State is giving me a great deal of information in the short time available. One third of people with disabilities are at risk of poverty. There are many multifactorial pressures on this group. If there is one disappointment in the budget, it is that no one group got the lift it needed. We could have chosen disabled persons, childcare or housing. I am not saying that €105 million is insignificant, because it is significant, but we need to leap higher. I thank the Minister of State for her reply.

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Sitting date: 2021-10-19