Vol. 412 No. 1
88 Mr. Callely asked the Minister for Social Welfare if he will consider extending the free travel scheme to people who should qualify for disabled person's maintenance allowance but are not in receipt of disabled person's maintenance allowance as they are in continual residential care; and if he will make a statement on the matter.
Persons in receipt of disabled person's maintenance allowance from the health board are entitled to a free travel pass under my Department's scheme.
One of the improvements I introduced last year was to allow recipients of the disabled person's maintenance allowance who enter health board residential care and, consequently, lose their allowance to nevertheless retain their free travel passes.
