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:
To go back to the point about personalised budgets, for things like music therapy, equine therapy and other supports, that may be a good place we could start with families having access to their own budget or space to do that, rather than it just being kind of professionally fitted by us and everyone having to fit into that. There is space for that to happen. To be fair to the then Minister of State, Senator Rabbitte, she pushed very hard to increase the visibility of those other supports for families. We have a bit of work still do on it but we are putting a couple of million euro into it. I would like to see if we could do it in a more personalised way.
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