Finian McGrath (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I forgot one short point when responding to Senator Dolan. The allocation for disabilities services this year will rise to €1.654 billion in 2017. We are putting in place a number of legislative items to ensure that we will be able to ratify the United Nations convention. As we go along, in order to ratify the UN convention we are also putting in place these services and extra issues as well. The Senator probably recently heard that the children who qualify for the domiciliary care allowance will be getting a medical card. These are all little rights and services that we are putting in place so that we can reach the target of ratifying the UN convention.