Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I am sure many of us would have received emails from disabled people saying the HSE has contacted them to tell them it cannot guarantee that personal assistants will be around on Thursday and Friday. While I agree that workers cannot be forced to go out if conditions are very bad, how do we facilitate those people who need personal assistants who could be without them for 36 or 48 hours? This issue is of huge concern but has not been addressed.

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