Robert Troy (Longford-Westmeath, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the same matter, a number of us were informed today that the people with restricted mobility who rely on an allowance such as this might not be visited by their personal assistants during the period of the red weather alert. They have been offered respite care places in private nursing homes, but they do not want to go into them. It will cost way more to accommodate people with disabilities in private nursing homes than it would to ensure personal assistants have the ability to visit them in their homes. I ask the Minister for Health to examine whether people with disabilities who rely on personal assistants and will be restricted to their homes while the red winter alert is in force can and will be guaranteed that such assistants will visit them in the coming days, given that they have been unable to access the mobility aid grant for the past five years.

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