Meeting of the Parliament 11 December 2024
I start by thanking the minister, and I look forward to seeing that money, but the problem is that we have heard that money promised before, and then it has been taken away.
Will the minister, in summing up, also tell us when that money will be available, when it will be spent and what the criteria will be? Most importantly, can she tell us that it will not go to organisations that do not need the money, but instead to the third sector, which desperately needs it? The third sector, and disabled people, are listening. They are tired of being left behind, and tired of not knowing whether or not they can go to the toilet with dignity in public. Most of all, they are tired of being promised the world and being delivered nothing.
I look forward to hearing the minister point out any inaccuracy in what I have said in the last six minutes and 58 seconds, because I believe that every word that I have said is factually true. The Government must make this right—get the funding, get it distributed and stand up for disabled people. That is what we want, and we want it now.