Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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This is a very difficult situation. This is a home-caring parent of four very seriously physically dependent children, one of whom is non-verbal. This particular child has serious spinal medical requirements. She is unable to get physiotherapy. She is also unable to obtain a weighing scales for a child who weighs 52 kg whom she has to lift out of the bed and weigh twice a week because she has a heart and lung condition. She physically has to hold that child on a weighing scales and then deduct her own weight. It would not be asking much for someone who is saving the State considerable amounts of money to be given a scales for €650.