Ms Mo Flynn:

When we published the "Who Cares?" report, we asked to meet Ms Laura Magahey in the Sláintecare office and while she did meet us, that has been the extent of the engagement. When the Sláintecare report was issued, it initially identified that the voluntary sector was not a key part of future plans and the relative importance it gave to disability was no more than a couple of lines. That, to us, reflected our status in future thinking, yet we are intrinsic to a policy that aims to have our health and social care services delivered from a community perspective. Without the home supports, residential and day services and other supports we provide, many of the opportunities to deliver alternatives to acute delivery will not be available. We have an ageing population within our demographic and we do not see their needs being reflected. Many of the Sláintecare proposals on funding were geared towards opportunities for older people but not older people with disabilities. We are not part of the consideration.