Jerry Cowley (Mayo, Independent)

I am grateful for the opportunity to support this amendment. This is all about equality for disabled people. This should be called a resources dependent disability Bill. After a consultation process with many disability groups, this Bill should have been thrown out. However, these amendments go some way towards creating equality. I am sorry there is a guillotine on the Bill because there are other important issues to be debated. The Minister should revisit the issue because the Bill is inadequate.

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