Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 2 March 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
Children's Unmet Needs: Engagement with Health Service Executive
Ms Angela O'Neill:
I will address the question of the progressing disability services, PDS, for children and young people project and the Disability Act. Our goal is to provide services based on the needs of children rather than diagnosis. The Act does not require the provision of a diagnosis. Likewise, under the PDS system we are moving away, in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, from services based on diagnosis to delivering services based on children's needs.
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