Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 8 July 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters
Resourcing of Personal Assistance Services: Discussion
Mr. Jonathan Angus:
We often end with the deficit discussion of how a person is disabled and how much money he or she should get as a result of his or her disability. Australia has some problems with this system, but one good aspect is that there can be a further conversation about what would be good in the person's life and how he or she could be enabled to have the life he or she envisages. As a result of that conversation, additional funding is often available to encourage creativity and to fund not just people getting to the starting line, in order that it is fair and everybody is at zero instead of being negative, but also to help people to have a good life, and creativity is encouraged in that regard.
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