Fidelma Healy Eames (Fine Gael)

Can the Leader intervene to request that a sense of proportion in the cuts is retained so that the weakest and most vulnerable people in society are not hurt? The 100% allowance and respite care of the people to whom I referred are now gone.

I will look for an early debate in the autumn with the Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform on how dangerous dogs and their owners should be handled in light of the savage attacks on two gardaí in Galway at the weekend by pit bull terriers. I would appreciate this because one of those gardaí is a neighbour of mine and had 150 stitches as a result of the attack, which could have been fatal. Across the globe, it is children who suffer and, on many occasions, are the most vulnerable targets for dangerous dogs.