Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (Cork South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On 26 February 2016 the Government decided to scrap the mobility allowance and the motorised transport grant. In June that year it decided that new statutory provisions would be established to provide individual payments for people with a severe disability who required additional income to address the costs associated with their mobility needs. An interdepartmental group chaired by the Department of the Taoiseach was asked to develop detailed proposals for the operation of the new scheme or schemes, including eligibility criteria and administration arrangements, and report back by October 2013. On 26 November 2013 the Government decided that the work to prepare for the scheme or schemes should be progressed by the Minister for Health. The Taoiseach who set up the interdepartmental group is gone and two Minsters have since left the Department of Health, yet we are still waiting. There is extraordinary annoyance and frustration at the lack of progress being made on the replacement schemes for the mobility allowance and motorised transport grant schemes.

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