Heather Humphreys (Cavan-Monaghan, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The provision of assistance hours is dealt with by the Department of Health. It is examining the issue. My Department is ensuring that we give opportunities, but I cannot specify how many people get personal assistance hours in my Department. To be honest, I am not sure. I do not know because I do not have those figures. It is important that we provide assistance, however. We will do everything we can. We have more than 6,000 employees in the Department of Social Protection and we give people with disabilities every opportunity to enable them to come and work with us, and we will continue to do so.