Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We would appreciate that. I thank one and all for their detailed contributions this morning. Some of the evidence we have heard recently, particularly on employment, shows the fear among people who have a disability and who are on benefits of going into employment and losing those benefits. It was mentioned that the medical card is crucial and gold. We hear that week in, week out. We really need to zone in on it. We have looked at transport, but it is also a matter of navigating Government Departments and State agencies, getting the best possible outcomes, whether in Bantry, in the large urban centres or wherever else, and trying to knit it all together. It takes a huge amount of work to knit it together to provide the best service for people with disabilities. We thank the witnesses for the honesty of their evidence and the way they have answered Members this morning. If there are any issues they think we have not dealt with or about which they wish to make further points, they should feel free to send us further information on them. The difficulty we have is that when we address some issues, we put another layer of bureaucracy onto the system rather than seeing if it can be knitted into the existing system to make it less cumbersome and less difficult for people with disabilities and the organisations that support them to access funding. We will look at that and we will certainly take up Mr. Flanagan's point about employers because that is a perspective we need to get as well as we go forward. I thank one and all for being present this morning, including those who have us joined online, our members for their dedication week in, week out, the witnesses for their time and efforts on this and our team here, who keep us on the straight and narrow every week.

We have a private meeting at 3.15 p.m. on Monday afternoon to go through the work schedule and maybe some of the issues that have arisen recently.