Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I again thank the Deputy for raising this important issue. I ask her to bear with me as we get to the bottom of it. It is very clear from Google that the family resource centre raised in excess of €10,000 to keep the bus on the road. I will talk to the Minister for Transport over the coming days and engage with the NTA. It is also important to realise that, within disability services, I pay out more than €54 million a year to support transport. There is surely a way the Department of Transport and the Department of Health can work together to ensure that where there are more local areas, everybody who can attend services gets on the bus.

On paid employment, as the Deputy said, that education piece from transitional school leaving to the National Learning Network, the rehabilitative training programmes and on into paid employment are the opportunities we are talking about. They should not just be opportunities but a right for everybody, regardless of their geographic location, to be able to attend. I will come back to the Deputy.

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