Mary Wallace
Question:82 Miss M. Wallace asked the Minister for Health the funding which is available to small-scale enterprises involving people with learning disabilities. [14491/96]
Vol. 468 No. 1
82 Miss M. Wallace asked the Minister for Health the funding which is available to small-scale enterprises involving people with learning disabilities. [14491/96]
Additional funding has been provided in 1996 and previous years for the development of a broad range of new day services for persons with a mental handicap. These developments may, in some cases, have resulted in the establishment of some small enterprise type facilities.
However there are two specific initiatives which the Government has introduced to provide persons with a disability, including persons with a mental handicap, with employment opportunities, namely the pilot programme for the employment of people with disabilities which has an allocation of £1.729 million in 1996 and the employment support scheme which has an allocation of £0.960 million in 1996.