Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 May 2024
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed)
Dr. Noreen O'Leary:
It was not a major in aspect of what we were looking at. However, there is an acknowledgement in the roadmap that there are issues. I refer here to the fact that some teams are still not co-located and do not have buildings which, as the Deputy said, are fit for purpose. The latter absolutely makes the work of disability teams more difficult. It also makes it more challenging for families. We have heard of cases where if a building is not available locally, families still have to travel to access their service, when, again, one of the goals of PDS was that families would not have to travel.
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