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

-----in the context of the children's hospital's timeline? We will leave it at the briefing note, as I wish to discuss another matter.

I thank the witnesses for the briefing notes on disability services. I was glad to see a recognition of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, UNCRPD, but as noted here, there is a discussion around regionality under the Transforming Lives policy. We have spoken at length about east Cork and north Cork and I do not necessarily wish to revisit the same questions, but I want to understand what the HSE's operating procedures are locally within CHOs for auditing matters such as regionality. Where capital funding is not meeting the recognition of the UNCRPD, what happens? For example, the HSE has closed down the Owenacurra Centre and there are 42 placements in north Cork and none in east Cork. This repudiates regionality in terms of the provision of long-stay beds. When that happens and someone flags it, what transpires next?