Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 February 2013
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions
Mobility and Motorised Transport Allowances: Discussion
4:20 pm
Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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Yes, €100 million for the other one. In terms of what is available now, as the Deputy rightly pointed out there are 4,700 recipients of the mobility allowance. There are approximately 300 applications per year for the motorised transport grant. If we were to comply, our best guess is that the number of recipients of the mobility allowance would increase to a possible figure of 63,500 and the number of recipients of the motorised transport grant would increase to 19,250 every year.