Éamon Ó Cuív (Galway West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome that because I have fought for a long time to ensure the disabled would not be considered as having an illness but as a community or group of people who have to be supported so they can live their lives fully. Can I take it that responsibility for all those with mental and intellectual disabilities and so on will be transferred to the Minister and that acute medicine will remain in the hospitals? Can I take it that services such as those offered by the Brothers of Charity and Ability West will be transferred to the Minister’s Department and that such services will be able to benefit from a focus they did not get at times when competing with acute medicine?

See this speech in context