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

Discussions involving the Minister of State with responsibility for disabilities, the Minister for Health and the Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform are under way on the design of the new scheme, how it will be administered and the costs associated with it. We intend to legislate next year to have the new scheme up and running in 2018 and then have it introduced towards the end of next year.

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