Ciara Conway (Waterford, Labour) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Mitchell O’Connor is not here but we would appreciate an update on deaf-blindness because Carol Brill addressed the committee on this issue.

It is very significant that in the lifetime of this Government disability residential centres are being inspected on a statutory basis by the Health Information and Quality Authority, HIQA, because the services are so varied. The Minister of State is familiar with this from the nursing home sector. Now that HIQA is inspecting disability services there is a cost for them to bring their facilities up to the standard. Is there a plan for them, similar to the one the Minister of State approved for nursing homes in the past few weeks?

It would be useful to have breakdown of where the additional posts in primary care are and how they are used.