Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

That is right. We are spending a lot of money on adaptation grants and moving people from one property to another. It is not just our houses; our whole environment needs to be universally designed, including transport links. The biggest obstacle to housing for disabled people is the lack of consultation with the health authorities to provide whatever those people need to support them to live independently, including a home care or personal assistant and assistive technology. That seems to be where there is a breakdown. The housing authorities can provide the houses but the supports for the person who wants to live in those houses are not provided.