Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will go to Ms Lawless and then I will come to the representatives from the organisations. Ms Newman made important points on her experience of supports going to the institution rather than the person. In this committee we often talk about the UNCRPD being about the person at the centre of everything but still have a model where the supports go to the institution and not necessarily to the person. Ms Lawless has outlined that because everybody is unique and has so many different things happening in their lives that when and how they might need supports is varied. Do we put the person at the centre of the supports that are available in how we structure them?