Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Select Committee on Disability Matters
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 40 - Disability (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Norma Foley (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
I understand the point the Deputy is making. I have had a number of meetings with the Minister, Deputy Calleary, about the personalised budget and the wage subsidy. Improvements have been made in funding for the wage subsidy. The Minister, Deputy Calleary, has been proactive in this space and would be open, on an ongoing basis, to looking at whatever measures are necessary. Changes have been made already to the wage subsidy. That will be looked at on an ongoing basis. It is phenomenal what the companies which have taken up that opportunity have achieved.
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