Ms Anna Shakespeare:

I would answer that in two parts. First, a costing methodology for disability services has never been bottomed out in Ireland. Several stop start attempts have been made at it, so until we understand how to cost disability services, we will never reach that platform that is referenced in the independent review group, IRG. Implementation of all aspects of the IRG recommendations is taken as read but a costing methodology is very clearly intrinsically linked to the financial viability and the service provision aspect.

There is a false assumption that the service provision in disability social care is static. We are seeing an explosion in young people with very complex needs-----