Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Government needs to come together with the agencies and Departments whose remit has expanded and which supply a range of services with a view to providing a scheme that will cater for the needs of people who require it. That is the job of the Minister for Health, Deputy Reilly, and the Minister of State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch. It is not true to say that the groups involved were not informed. They were all told yesterday. There have been meetings about this for some time. As the Deputy is aware, and as I pointed out to another Deputy this morning, there was an occasion on which a different Government refused to face up to the fact that it continued to operate a scheme that was illegal, unequal and discriminatory.

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