Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I do not accept that my response is complacent. I am just offering balance and accuracy and if I can acknowledge that there are failings and shortcomings, surely Deputy Martin should be big enough to acknowledge that there has been progress as well? Everything I itemised is genuine progress and has really happened. To mention the sort of thing that is being done in the budget this year, there is a €1.688 billion budget for social care. Some 8,400 residential places will be provided, 182,000 respite overnight care nights, 1.4 million personal assistance hours for 2,400 people with disabilities and 24,800 day places, 41,000 day respite sessions, decongregation is happening at pace and people are being moved out of institutional settings and into community houses though not as many as we would like or as quickly as we would like-----

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