Enda Kenny (Mayo, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

-----from drugs to healthy Ireland, from mental health to disability, which all carry significant budgets. They are all working hard to implement their particular strategies.

The Minister for Health, Deputy Simon Harris, set out to have an all-party committee on health care, which is functioning, to remove elements of politics from the health area and have a ten-year strategy for it. Two new initiatives were launched, namely the winter initiative and the endoscopy waiting list. He has introduced medical cards for domiciliary care allowances which will benefit 10,000 children. Additional funding has been put in for disability services, including supports and services for all 18 year old school leavers. This was always a problem every year which the Minister has dealt with.

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