Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Planning for Inclusive Communities: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Bernard O'Regan:

I thank the Deputy. That is not okay, for the person in the first instance, for us as a service provider nor for partners. It goes to some of the points we were making earlier on trying to get the alignment right between support and housing. It is a good example, in the worst way, of where a system may not be working. Resources are a challenge but this is not a resource issue in the sense that, and I do not know the details of it, we have a budget which is available to support people to transition from inappropriate placements, whether those are nursing homes, or the prevention of people going into nursing homes. Certainly we will look to do that. There may be other factors involved which I do not know about so, to be fair to others involved, I just want to acknowledge that. Mr. Higgins wanted to comment on it as well.

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