Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)

This exaggerated notion is wrong and is not how we should conduct our business. It is an exaggerated claim because there will not be catastrophic effects on front line services. We are negotiating about service level agreements with service level providers and that will be managed. I come back to the fact that we cannot agree to a service plan in November before a budget and then four months later say it is no longer possible. That is exactly what was done every year and I saw it happen with Deputy Kelleher's Government and those that went before.

This is about a plan that will ensure stability and security in the system and we can do it. People with disabilities tell me every day that they might have a disability but they are not sick. We must bring a different skill mix into the service and we will be able to do that. The people with disabilities will have a better service and more control over that service.

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