Liam Fitzgerald
Question:136 Mr. L. Fitzgerald asked the Minister for Social Welfare his views on whether the State's contribution to our 6,917 carers in the 1997 budget proposals for carer's allowance increases is inadequate and unfair in view of their contribution to the care of the incapacitated; his views on whether this package of increases, as announced in the 1997 budget, fails to take account of or reflect the degree of incapacitation in each case and will inevitably give rise to anomalies and injustices; if he will take adequate account of these aspects of the anomalies and injustices; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10240/97]