Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)

This is no surprise to anyone when it happens. In fairness to the HSE, it has worked exceptionally hard since April to resolve this issue and we can see from the decrease in numbers that there has been significant success. I have just left the Royal Hospital Kilmainham, where a forum is taking place to bring together those with disabilities, their carers and their advocates to engage in a process which will give us an implementation plan for disability. It is amazing; we have an Act, we have strategies and sectoral plans but no implementation plan. We are now working on that and I believe it will give us a solution.

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