Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank Deputy Murphy for raising this specific issue. If he wishes to provide me with the details, I would be very happy to look into the case. On fulfilling the commitment in the programme for Government, measures we have taken in recent months have included a significant increase in funding for respite and home help, more special needs classes around the country, an automatic entitlement to a medical card for people in receipt of the domiciliary care allowance, extra speech and language therapists working in our early intervention teams, and more than €3.8 billion being spent on illness, disability and carer payments - an increase of almost 4% on the previous year. We are making progress, but we have much more to do. I would be happy to look into that individual case.

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