Jack Chambers (Dublin West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I welcome the Minister of State and his officials. I thank the Minister of State for all the work he has done in the context of Ireland ratifying the CRPD. I know it was one of his main targets in the past couple of years and, despite the delay, he went and did it. He is to be commended on that. It is now in the implementation phase.

I want to ask about the A Vision for Change document and intellectual disability. Can the Minister of State outline where Ireland stands in the context of matching the targets relating to intellectual disability that were set in A Vision for Change? Intellectual disability services do not match the median norms relating to the fields of adult psychiatric or the psychiatry of old age field or those that apply to child and adolescent mental health services. This is despite the fact that those services are completely under-resourced relative to the demand. My understanding is that services for people with intellectual disabilities are the worst of in comparison with the targets in A Vision for Change. I would like an update on that.