Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 February 2023

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)

9:30 am

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

That was the history of how services grew. If the Deputy looks at the progressing disability services, PDS, programme and the children's disability networks, which colleagues spoke about earlier, that is a deliberate attempt to bring a standardisation to get the partners working together around the standard assessment model to identify a lead partner, whether it is us or a section 38 or 39 organisation, in an area to pool the resources so that we move away from situations where, in some cases, certain families might have had access to some children's disability services, whereas in a similar area down the road, they just did not. We are trying to even that out and provide equitable service. The best of the voluntary organisations, because the policy is that they-----

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