Joe O'Toole (Independent)

I welcome the Minister of State to the House. The debate on disability is welcome in the House and among the media.

Over the past two weeks I have had a lot of sympathy for disability groups trying to find their way through this quite opaque legislation. This legislation depends on goodwill. The point is not that it should be politically driven, but that it is, so that it will be dealt with in the way most convenient to Government.