Liz McManus (Wicklow, Labour)

Surely that is not true. If former Minister, John Boland, was able to bring forward a proposal to Cabinet, presumably he had taken advice from the Attorney General in some shape or form. Has the Minister asked the person who took over from John Boland as Minister, the Ceann Comhairle, Deputy O'Hanlon, why the battle was not resolved at that point as the Minister states it should have been?

The Minister mentioned people suffering from mental illness. Are people in long-term care with physical disabilities included in the provisions?

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