Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I ask the Minister to give a timeline as regards publishing the straw-man report because it is important that this work is done. It is welcome it is being done but a timeline would be helpful, particularly for the implementation plan on the back of that cost of disability report, which the organisations are seeking. I hope too that in the work that will be done now on restructuring those payments, what they look like and how they work, we also look at people in receipt of disability allowance who are working. There was a briefing a few weeks ago by disabled artists and academics. It is a great shame people with such amazing gifts and talents cannot show them off, sell them or perform because they are so worried about winning a bursary or prize that will impact their disability allowance. That is a great shame and we must look at how work actually interacts with the likes of the disability allowance. People will get their disability allowance, and if they work, they will pay taxes. We need to look at all of that as well.

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