Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 September 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Public Service Oversight and Petitions

Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Grant Scheme: Department of Health

4:00 pm

Mr. Jim Breslin:

As the Deputy implied, I am not a politician. We are approaching this task on the basis that it needs to be completed independently of any other event and that we need to submit the work to the Government, once completed. The timeline is that we will complete the process of seeking legal advice and engage in some consultations, principally with the Department of Social Protection, and then make a submission to the Government. We intend to do this in a matter of weeks, not months or years, subject to getting through the legal advice process.