Budget Speech

Support to Persons with Disabilities

119.      I will provide additional recurrent funding of about $19 million to enhance the care for persons with disabilities and provide the necessary training, including the provision of 156 additional residential places, 30 additional day training or vocational rehabilitation service places and 54 additional pre-school rehabilitation service places. To strengthen transport services for persons with disabilities, I will also provide additional funding of about $7.7 million to increase the number of Rehabuses to 115 by acquiring six new buses and replacing four old ones.