Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Committee on Disability Matters
Living Independently in the Community for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion
2:00 am
Dr. Emer Begley:
A lot of what we do with our members is peer networking, where we bring our members together to support each other in sharing information. If there are campaigns, they support each other around them. The Senator is right; the sector is very fragmented. There is a dichotomy between what are perceived as service providers and as non-service providers or DPOs. We are a broad ecosystem. It is about how you bring everybody together where they are not pitted one against the other and where there is a common goal. That is where things have fallen down a bit. It is either you are in this camp or that camp, when, actually the majority of people have a personal experience.
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