Eileen Flynn (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I know it is different but as it is still on the nine grounds of discrimination, I would like to add some of my own experience. For the past 40 years, we did report after report and there were all of those working groups, but with no action. It is not personal to Ms. O'Neill, but as Ms Gaynor rightly said, in the HSE, as is the case with benefits for people with disabilities - they have a big problem with that Department - on the ground, people do not see that those hours have increased. I could ask any of the other four witnesses whether that is evident on the ground for people. In counties Donegal and Dublin and in the Traveller community, people do not see this on the ground. People with disabilities are feeling failed. Not only are they feeling it, they are being failed. I apologise to the Chair but it is not every day that the HSE appears before the committee. How do we get that system? Even if we did not have a system, how do we get that accountability. Do we go back to the Minister responsible for disabilities and tell him we are being failed?