Today marks the fifth anniversary of the abolition of the mobility allowance by a Government, of which Fine Gael was part, which promised that an alternative scheme would be introduced. The last time I asked about the health (transport support) Bill approximately a year ago I was told it was supposed to be going through the pre-legislative scrutiny process. Will the Taoiseach update the House on the status of the Bill?

On the same matter, a number of us were informed today that the people with restricted mobility who rely on an allowance such as this might not be visited by their personal assistants during the period of the red weather alert. They have been offered respite care places in private nursing homes, but they do not want to go into them. It will cost way more to accommodate people with disabilities in private nursing homes than it would to ensure personal assistants have the ability to visit them in their homes. I ask the Minister for Health to examine whether people with disabilities who rely on personal assistants and will be restricted to their homes while the red winter alert is in force can and will be guaranteed that such assistants will visit them in the coming days, given that they have been unable to access the mobility aid grant for the past five years.

On the promised legislation, I acknowledge that the Bill in question is long overdue. I have asked the Ministers for Health and Public Expenditure and Reform to work together to allow us to get the legislation done in this calendar year in order that it can form part of the Estimates process and any new scheme will be introduced next year.

On the Deputy's other question, questions to the Taoiseach in this session is rapidly turning into questions about almost anything. I am not in a position to answer every question that is thrown at me.

Most of them are related to commitments in the programme for Government.

If they relate to promised legislation or the programme for Government, I will answer them.