Dáil debates
Wednesday, 15 November 2017
Leaders' Questions (Resumed)
12:30 pm
Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
It is my role - and very much my role - to be Taoiseach for everyone in the country and that is exactly the way I intend to govern. This includes increasing funding and facilities for people with disabilities and we have done this. There was a €90 million increase in funding for disability last year and there is a further €75 million to come this year. For the first time ever in the history of the State, there are medical cards - by right - for all children with severe disabilities regardless of their parents' income. This is our record. We have had the first increases in eight or nine years in the disability allowance two years in a row. These are the facts. What we get from Deputy Adams is rhetoric. We are just getting a preview of his Ard-Fheis speech. The strategy of Sinn Féin is very obvious. Its aim is to exploit human suffering-----
No comments