Shane Ross (Dublin Rathdown, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I believe those issues are on my next page. God, I thought I was getting off easy there but the Deputy is quite right. I have the list here. On the ring-fencing of the €28 million we have enormously expanded and increased the amount of money being allotted to people with disabilities in recent years. The €28 million is actually trebling the amount. I have seen a lot of cases where ring-fencing suddenly becomes a minimum rather than the maximum. We could do it but currently we are increasing the spending, especially on retrofitting, at an extraordinary rate, which is unprecedented. A sum of €28 million over four years is a lot of money. This is going mostly to infrastructure and retrofitting. On top of this is an ongoing programme. This means that all those funds will be spent on retrofitting, going back on things that went wrong in the past.