Dáil debates
Wednesday, 13 December 2017
Questions on Promised Legislation
1:00 pm
Martin Kenny (Sligo-Leitrim, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
In the programme for Government, there is much commitment to people with disabilities. The National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire receives a vast amount of public funds and does tremendous work. However, there is an anomaly particularly for people who have prosthetic limbs, and there are such people in my constituency. If such a person gets a prosthetic limb from a private company besides the one that is contracted to the National Rehabilitation Hospital, the hospital refuses to give him or her the intensive physiotherapy he or she requires. A company called Mobility Ireland seems to have this contract, and no one else can get in on the game.
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