Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)

Given the Minister's answer, she clearly did not learn anything from the announcement made in the budget. She is still trying to claim that the families were looking for this measure when she refers to the six different voluntary bodies which did not seriously contest what she did. The families involved seriously contested the decision the Minister made. The decision was wrong and the fact the Minister still seems to be considering it in a different context is wrong.

In any case, that was not the question I asked. If the Minister reads the question, she will see the last line of her answer is all that refers to the question asked. I asked the Minister from where in her budget she will save the €4.2 million that was ring-fenced when she was going to make this change. Both the Minister and the Taoiseach said in the media that she was going to find these savings elsewhere in her Department. The specific question I asked was from where those savings will come. The Minister was able to say she would get them so she should account for them to the House.

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