Prosthetic limb physiotherapy access
Martin Kenny raises a disability services problem where people with prosthetic limbs lose physiotherapy if they use a different supplier. The Chair rules it outside promised legislation, and the Taoiseach agrees it should be pursued by parliamentary question or Topical Issue.
In the programme for Government, there is much commitment to people with disabilities. The National Rehabilitation Hospital in Dún Laoghaire receives a vast amount of public funds and does tremendous work. However, there is an anomaly particularly for people who have prosthetic limbs, and there are such people in my constituency. If such a person gets a prosthetic limb from a private company besides the one that is contracted to the National Rehabilitation Hospital, the hospital refuses to give him or her the intensive physiotherapy he or she requires. A company called Mobility Ireland seems to have this contract, and no one else can get in on the game.
Comment on this
Under the programme for Government, there is a commitment to ensure that people with disabilities retain their rights.
Comment on this
People with prosthetic limbs cannot get physiotherapy, and this needs to be dealt with.
