Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail)

It is having a devastating impact on families who up to now have used that money for therapeutic interventions, including occupational therapy, speech and language therapy and a range of other special needs therapies. Why is it that the cuts the Taoiseach has initiated are hitting the most vulnerable in our society above and beyond anybody else? It is not just me who is saying so, independent commentators are also saying it. We have had enough empathy and all this vague talk of reviews.

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