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
Ruairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein)
There was. We are talking about speciality disability services and the €267 million. I will go straight to the €85 million for specialist residential services. I have had the complaint many times that, at some level and in some circumstances, the State can be very reactive. A better model of planning is probably needed, particularly when we are talking about this. We are aware of the issue of those in nursing homes who are aged under 65 and should not be there. Even in cases where people have been facilitated into homes and supported homes, in an awful lot of cases the State ends up paying a lot more on the basis that it is an emergency. In some cases private operators have a greater capacity to react in this set of circumstances. Is there a plan to do this better? Is there an increase in the number of those looking for this and is there any reason for that?
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