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Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Transport Costs (18 Jun 2024)

Robbie Gallagher: ...transport charge, which is being levied on some service users who are attending day care services in the community healthcare organisation, CHO, 1, which includes counties Monaghan, Cavan, Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim.As the Minister of State knows, where a member of a family has a disability, the household incurs costs over and above what would be normal for another household. They may...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Transport Costs (18 Jun 2024)

Anne Rabbitte: ...remit to provide transport but recognises that services users living in rural areas would not be able to access services without transport supports.The partnership with transport providers commenced in Sligo and Leitrim in 2012. At the time, day services commenced collecting transport fares within the centre. However, some centres do not collect fares and to ensure equity, all passengers...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Transport Costs (18 Jun 2024)

Robbie Gallagher: ...afternoon. She used the word "inequality" with regard to this particular charge and that is exactly what it is. As she outlined, it is unfair that the people of counties Monaghan, Cavan, Donegal, Sligo and Leitrim have to pay this charge when other service users in other parts of the country do not. I commend the Minister of State on the work she has undertaken in trying to get this...