Peter Burke (Longford-Westmeath, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Crowe for his observations, and Deputy Ó Cuív, who is very committed to this area.

We have made significant progress in the past year. One can look at the doubling of the maintenance allowance; an increase in the caretaker refund through the local authority network right up to 75%; Cena, the local authority AHB can now draw down 100% of funding from the capital assistance programme, which were again changes that-----