David Stanton (Cork East, Fine Gael)

My amendment No. 4 seeks to delete the word "disability" and substitute "Assessment and Services For People with Disabilities and Miscellaneous Provisions". That takes in most matters, as almost everything in the Bill is about assessment and services, whether it concerns employment services, access services or genetic testing services. The wording "miscellaneous provisions" concerns the Minister's own Part 7. The Bill is about assessment and services for people with disabilities. Everything else is about assessment and services of some sort, or so it should be.

The Minister referred to courts and he seems to have a fixation in this regard. He must have nightmares about being in court. However, court is the last place that people with disabilities want to be. If this Bill works as it should, they should never have to set foot in a court to get what they need.

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