Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The health (transport support) Bill is on the spring-summer legislative programme. The mobility scheme has been abandoned for eight or nine years and the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Finian McGrath, promised us last November that a new scheme was imminent. That was five months ago. When will the Bill be introduced, given a great deal of enabling work is needed? Many families are suffering enormously. They need specially adapted cars for their loved ones. The scheme has been gone for so long that their cars are clapped out. They are seven or eight years old and cannot be changed. When will this important scheme be reintroduced? Could the Minister give us a date because people are suffering?

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