Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 27 June 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion
9:00 am
Ms Aoife O'Malley:
Our main issue is with resourcing. It simply is not possible. There are a number of occupational therapists and other clinicians working in a uni-disciplinary manner at the moment because of lack of reconfiguration. Even within reconfigured services there is still under-resourcing and understaffing.
It would simply be impossible to do this type of assessment without the staffing.
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