John Gormley (Dublin South East, Green Party)

Fortunately, the Opposition motion also gives us the opportunity to compare our ambitious agenda for further reform to the Opposition's fairly bare cupboard. For example, while its motion seems to suggest that it has no future plans to cater for the needs of older people and people with a disability, we are committed to completing and publishing a national housing strategy for people with disability, carrying out a review of the operation of the housing adaptation grant schemes for older people and people with a disability, and implementing recommendations and developing an approach to the delivery of sheltered housing for older people to feed into the Government's national positive aging strategy.

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