Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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210. To ask the Minister for Health when new schemes will be introduced to replace the motorised transport grant and mobility allowance; the reason for the delay; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [11221/14]

Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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In November 2013, the Government decided that the detailed preparatory work required for a new travel subsidy scheme and associated statutory provisions should be progressed by the Minister for Health, in consultation with other relevant Ministers. The Department of Health is working to progress this matter in line with the Government's decision.

The Department will draw on the work, last year, of the Review Group on Transport Supports for People with Disabilities and the Inter-Departmental Group tasked by Government to consider details of a statutory replacement for the discontinued Mobility Allowance and Motorised Transport Grant Schemes.