Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 17 July 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion (Resumed)
10:30 am
Timmy Dooley (Clare, Fianna Fail)
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That is helpful. I think Senator Byrne covered more of it. We regularly hear from Ms O'Meara and the Irish Cancer Society. I fully support this notion of continuing to step up the tax take.
The work done by Acquired Brain Injury Ireland is fantastic and often goes unnoticed. It is one of those unseen heroes of the particular sector in which it works. It is reasonable for us to set aside and ring fence funding on an annual basis. From personal experience, I know that there is not enough intervention in the early stages of people having an acquired brain injury. Most of us get contacted on a regular basis by constituents trying to get into facilities that would assist people in that rehabilitation programme so there needs to be a more capital-intensive programme of investment to support the facilities. Some of these incidences such as strokes probably arise from abuse of alcohol. These are just comments because I think Acquired Brain Injury Ireland's documents are self-explanatory and straightforward. It was worked out how the process works and has identified what it is asking for.