Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 November 2025
Select Committee on Disability Matters
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 40 - Disability (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Liam Quaide (Cork East, Social Democrats)
I want to return to my concerns about the private outsourcing of assessments of need, not only because of the vast amount it diverts from public services, but the perverse incentives created for clinicians to leave the very services we need to resource. The Minister mentioned a figure of €20 million for privately outsourced assessments of need. Is that for one year?
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