Brian Cowen (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)

-----aspects of the work of the Department that are ongoing.

I want to come back to the central point. Some of the issues raised by Deputy Kenny can and should be answered in full. They will be answered in full but I am explaining the context in which all of this is happening. The real point to make is that every effort will be made to work with people providing disability services. How do we reduce non-frontline expenditure so we have sufficient funding for the frontline? We all know some element of support expenditure has to be provided, no more than one cannot have a consultant in a hospital providing proper services without secretarial support. We all understand it is not a black and white issue but it is an issue that needs to be addressed and will only be addressed if we re-organise how the services are provided.

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