Dermot Ahern (Louth, Fianna Fail)

——that, to a certain extent, the fact that the Department only deducted 1% from the National Disability Authority has been hung around my neck. I made this point strongly to the members of the authority's board and the chief executive when I met them last week. I told them the Government had made a specific decision when preparing the Estimates and the budget that people with disabilities would be those least affected by cuts. This is the reason there is such a small cut in respect of that authority.

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