The motorised transport grant for disabled people has been closed to new applicants since the decision of the Ombudsman many years ago. I have continually raised this issue in the Dáil and have been continually promised that the Government was working on a scheme to either restore or replace that grant. Meanwhile the number of people who would qualify for it if it was in operation is increasing week by week. Can the Taoiseach give a definite timescale within which this will be either replaced or restored?

I have been asking this question for six years since the Government scrapped the motorised transport grant and the mobility allowance. In the most recent response I received, I was told that the Minister for Health and the Minister of State at the Department of Health, Deputy Finian McGrath, brought proposals for a new transport support payment scheme to the Cabinet in May 2018. They then withdrew it. There has been no explanation. They said they were going to come back with a revised proposal but, again, there was no timeframe. There is a commitment in the programme for Government that has not been acted upon. This issue has been sitting in the Government's legislative programme for years. How much longer will it be before this Government produces a scheme and a Bill, and a timeframe to introduce it?

The Minister of State is still working on that. It requires new primary legislation to establish a new scheme. That scheme must be affordable from the point of view of the taxpayer so it has run into quite some difficulties. He is still working on that but I cannot give a timeframe for the legislation.