Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 14 June 2018
Public Accounts Committee
Financial Statements 2016: National Treatment Purchase Fund
9:00 am
Mr. Michael Fitzgerald:
I completely agree with you. There should be no discrimination for a person because that person is in residential care, especially if the person has a need for a service. The fact that a person is in residential care should not mean he or she should not get the services. That is what I am saying. I agree with that. I am simply saying that if an occupational therapist has a long waiting list, in fairness, the people he or she is more likely to look after are those who are at home. It would be a natural thing for the service provider to do that. That would be a clinical call. Let us suppose a person is in a residential care setting and needs a service. Is there sufficient capacity to provide that service for everyone? That is another question. There may not be.
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