Micheál Martin (Cork South-Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

The entire assessment of need process has to be reformed. That may involve and necessitate legislative change. The Government will work on this and will consult the Minister for disability and children on that issue. In addition, we have fairly set targets and objectives in respect of disability across the programme for Government, in particular with regard to developing an education-based approach to therapies in situ, beginning with special schools. I will establish a unit in the Department of An Taoiseach specifically dedicated to the disability question so that we have a whole-of-government approach to disability over the next while. I intend to prioritise it.

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