The PP asks the Senado for more funding for dependency and disability
PP senators Bienvenido de Arriba and Cristina Casanueva present 45 amendments to the disability law and demand that the Gobierno fund dependency at 50%, according to the note sent by the PP.
Redacción · Publicada el September 10, 2026
The Grupo Parlamentario Popular (GPP) has submitted 45 amendments to the Proyecto de Ley by which the Texto Refundido de la Ley General de derechos de las personas con discapacidad y de su inclusión social is modified, which is being debated in the Pleno del Senado.
Among the PP's proposals is setting dependency financing at 50% between the State and the comunidades autónomas, reviewing the priority criteria for access to services, strengthening early intervention, and allowing the accredited experience of personal assistance professionals to be assessed.
On accessibility matters, the PP proposes that transport infrastructures have adapted restrooms for people with ostomy, updating the Ley de Propiedad Horizontal of 1962, and demanding real accessibility in oposiciones for people with a degree of disability below 33%.
On housing, the group proposes lowering VAT to 4% on accessibility works both in the primary residence and in common areas of buildings. On education, it advocates that families be able to choose the model and school for their children. On training, it asks that not obtaining the ESO diploma not prevent access to other training pathways for people with disabilities, proposes a plan against the digital divide, and calls for the recognition of deafblindness as a disability.
Senator Bienvenido de Arriba, spokesperson for Derechos Sociales of the GPP, accused the Gobierno of having so far justified that the budget extension prevented increasing dependency financing, and of having changed its discourse afterward. He recalled that, according to his data, the Gobierno of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero promised in 2006 to contribute one billion euros to dependency and only four hundred million arrived, and that in 2010 the retroactivity of dependency was eliminated and its financing reduced.
Senator Cristina Casanueva, spokesperson for Políticas Integrales of the GPP, denounced what she called an eight-year historic non-payment by the Gobierno in matters of disability and dependency, and recalled that ELA patients went a year without financing for the copayment. "Rights without financing are social hypocrisy," Casanueva stated.
Both spokespersons criticized the Gobierno for having reached a dependency financing agreement at 50% with the País Vasco and a specific provision for Cataluña, while, according to the PP, leaving financing unresolved in the rest of the territory.
Among the PP's proposals is setting dependency financing at 50% between the State and the comunidades autónomas, reviewing the priority criteria for access to services, strengthening early intervention, and allowing the accredited experience of personal assistance professionals to be assessed.
On accessibility matters, the PP proposes that transport infrastructures have adapted restrooms for people with ostomy, updating the Ley de Propiedad Horizontal of 1962, and demanding real accessibility in oposiciones for people with a degree of disability below 33%.
On housing, the group proposes lowering VAT to 4% on accessibility works both in the primary residence and in common areas of buildings. On education, it advocates that families be able to choose the model and school for their children. On training, it asks that not obtaining the ESO diploma not prevent access to other training pathways for people with disabilities, proposes a plan against the digital divide, and calls for the recognition of deafblindness as a disability.
Senator Bienvenido de Arriba, spokesperson for Derechos Sociales of the GPP, accused the Gobierno of having so far justified that the budget extension prevented increasing dependency financing, and of having changed its discourse afterward. He recalled that, according to his data, the Gobierno of José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero promised in 2006 to contribute one billion euros to dependency and only four hundred million arrived, and that in 2010 the retroactivity of dependency was eliminated and its financing reduced.
Senator Cristina Casanueva, spokesperson for Políticas Integrales of the GPP, denounced what she called an eight-year historic non-payment by the Gobierno in matters of disability and dependency, and recalled that ELA patients went a year without financing for the copayment. "Rights without financing are social hypocrisy," Casanueva stated.
Both spokespersons criticized the Gobierno for having reached a dependency financing agreement at 50% with the País Vasco and a specific provision for Cataluña, while, according to the PP, leaving financing unresolved in the rest of the territory.