Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Committee on Disability Matters
Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
I do not dispute any of that whatsoever. I have met Mark and Cara, and I will meet them again in the coming weeks.
With regard to the use of private sector capacity for assessments of need, I have no principled objection to using it. I would rather it was not the case, but I do not have any objection to using it. One of the concerns I have is that we do not use inappropriate private sector capacity. Simply put, that is people saying they are qualified to offer a family something when they are not. I have a fundamental issue with that. It is very unfair to families. However, we can speak to the detail of the amount of private capacity that we are using. Dr. O'Donohue might comment on that.
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