Ms Anna Shakespeare:

-----who would not have survived into adulthood in times past. Equally, at the far end of the spectrum, we are seeing men and women with disabilities who are older and are surviving much longer than they would ten, 20 or 30 years ago. We are also seeing an increase in population, and for the first time since the Famine the population the risen beyond 5.5 million. There is a requirement for a health service capacity review for disability and social care to map out and scope out the scale and extent of disability social care provision and to plan for it in the context of multi-annual budgets that are sensible.