Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance) | Oireachtas source

In local authorities, people with chronic disabilities, heart conditions and other vulnerable people are being told they have to wait a year or two to get a grab rail in order that they can get up the stairs to have a bath. That is absolutely unacceptable, yet the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform sanctioned three new spin doctors at the beginning of this year. It was considered vital to have PR advisers but-----

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