Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 1 October 2014
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection
Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion
2:20 pm
Mr. John Dolan:
The mobility allowance was introduced in or around 1970. It was money paid directly to a person. The money followed the person and the person was given some choice. That is an example of the irony. We are talking about changing services and money following the person. We had a real old-fashioned scheme doing that for quite some time. It ran into this problem. It is still in no man's land. It is as the Chair has described it.