Mr. John Hogan:

What happened was that the provisions of the scheme were set out in the statutory instrument on the basis of the legal advice we received or set out in the primary legislation. Our imperative at that stage was to facilitate a mechanism that the scheme would and should continue as it was constructed but subject to our conducting or being in a position to conduct a review as to what the future path should be. I outlined to Deputy Carthy earlier two aspects of the work on this which are really important. One is to define a mechanism, that we have a scheme in place operating at a primary level through the HSE and that we have an appeals mechanism. Work is advancing on that. Equally there is the wider consideration of the appropriate mechanism to support people who have a disability and need to access State intervention in the mobility space. That work is ongoing in the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth.