Tommy Broughan (Dublin North East, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Is it intended to have a Supplementary Estimate for health over the next week or so, or will we have to wait for the Minister for Finance to bring in a formal budget? The Minister, Deputy Varadkar, speculated in his usual way, as if he were the health correspondent for RTE or The Irish Times or a hurler on the ditch, rather than the Minister with day-to-day responsibility for health. Will we get the extra €1 billion needed? There is concern in the north of Dublin about young adults with intellectual disabilities who finish secondary school and find there are no places for them. Agencies such as St. Michael's House and Gheel Autism Service have no resources. Will the Minister, Deputy Varadkar, be given the money to which he referred immediately? Places are needed in the next couple of weeks.

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