Dr. Rosalyn Tamming:

The National Disability Authority, NDA, is the secretariat for the disabilities stakeholders group, which is a group of people with disabilities and people from representative organisations. They are appointed by the Minister but they are very embedded in the monitoring process of the national disability inclusion strategy. They sit on all of the disability consultative committees within the Departments which are responsible for monitoring the strategy actioned within those Departments, and they sit on the steering group that is chaired by the Minister. There is already a lot of integration and there could be and always can be more, but that is a good step that has been taken.

The Deputy sought recommendations and we could probably supply her with lots of recommendations of people to talk to. Specifically on intellectual disabilities, I do not know if the committee is inviting Professor Mary McCarron, Trinity Centre for Ageing and Intellectual Disability, but she would be one person.

We can follow up and give the committee several recommendations on that if members wish.