Finian McGrath (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The taskforce on a personalised budget was in the programme for Government. It did amazing work over the past 12 months under the chairmanship of Christie Lynch, with many disabled people and several disability advocates. It involves controlling and accessing health and social services and reflecting the UN convention to respect the person with a disability and give them more autonomy to make decisions. The good news is the taskforce has finalised the report. I have had it on my desk for the past two weeks. I am finished with it now and hope to bring a memo to Government in the next week or two. The taskforce has focused on adult services and HSE funded services and the idea is to give control to the person with a disability. I think people will be very happy with this. It is a start but we have a long way to go.