Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 June 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2020 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth

9:30 am

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

I am trying to get at sense of what the process is like. It is between the Departments and not necessarily for public review. A vast array of services in Ireland cover disability and they sometimes sit in two camps. Was an audit done based on a rights-based approach to disability services? I am also a member of the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Disability Matters and I am running between the two committees today. The rights-based approach changes the focus and filter through which some services are provided. They may not now sit very comfortably in the Department of Social Protection. I feel very much that the communities themselves sometimes object to certain services being provided through the Department of Social Protection. In the process of deciding what service is going where, was an audit done through a rights-based lens?

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