Pádraig Mac Lochlainn (Donegal North East, Sinn Fein)
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Question 430: To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if his attention has been drawn to the charge applied to disabled persons in County Donegal for travel to their training day or day centres under the rural transport initiative and his plans to either remove or advise removal of this additional financial burden on them following repeated budget cuts to their income. [10607/11]

Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael)
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I understand that the transport services in question are not provided under my Department's Rural Transport Programme but are operated under contract with the Health Services Executive (HSE), to whom the question of charges for those services should be addressed. The Free Travel Scheme of the Department of Social Protection applies to all services operated under the Rural Transport Programme.