Marie Moloney (Labour)

I will be brief but what I have to say is important. It has come to my attention that a young boy in County Kerry who is severely disabled is being denied an eye-activated computer by the Department of Education and Skills. This computer costs in the region of €12,000 but it is his only way of communicating with the world as he is unable to communicate otherwise. I know that budgets are tight but what price do we put on a child being able to communicate with this world? The computer would not even cost as much as what Bertie Ahern used to spend on his make-up-----