Gerry Adams (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

My question is on the health (transport support) Bill. The Taoiseach will recall the legislation is intended to provide for a scheme to make individual payments towards transport costs for citizens with severe disabilities. Almost three years ago, the Taoiseach scrapped the motorised transport grant and mobility allowance. Interestingly enough, this came on the back of it being found to be discriminatory and in breach of various equality protocols because certain people were not allowed onto it. Rather than opening it up for those people, the Government scrapped it entirely. While temporary arrangements were made for approximately 5,000 citizens, no disabled citizens have had access to any transport scheme since then. I have raised this many times. The Taoiseach promises a new scheme all the time. The Tánaiste told us the heads of the Bill would be published in July but they were not. Will the Taoiseach tell us when the heads of the Bill will be published and when he expects the health (transport support) Bill to be introduced in the Dáil?

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