Today, the ministry outlined new clarifications on how people can use some of the disability funding.

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Last month, Whaikaha placed new rules on funding for equipment, modification support and services due to financial pressure, causing widespread upset in the disabled community.

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Actor perhaps best known by more modern audiences as Colonel Tigh in the sci-fi series Battlestar Galactica.

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