Seán Power (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)

Deputy Higgins made a wonderful contribution to this debate in explaining how he is highly insulted by the scheme as it operates. I remind him that the regulations were introduced by his colleague, Deputy Howlin, when he was Minister for Health and Children. Clearly, he was not insulted at their introduction in 1993 and they have been used by successive Governments since. Unfortunately, there is no bottomless pit of funding for schemes such as this. There is a limit to the amount we can spend on the scheme.

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