Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I very much welcome that the Minister is introducing this Bill. The automatic medical card for children whose parents are in receipt of domiciliary carer's allowance is especially important for those who face a review every three years or whatever. Affected parents in my constituency have brought up the hardship of filling up the forms. They have a lot of other stress in their lives, especially dealing with a disability that obviously is not going to get better. The Minister will have my full party support in pushing this through quickly.

I am glad that the winter initiative talks are being started early. Some of it went right, some of it went very wrong. The earlier aspects regarding the winter start to be discussed, the better.