Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 12 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection

Joint Meeting of the Joint Committee on Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Joint Committee on Education and Skills and Joint Committee on Health
Supports for People with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed)

12:00 pm

Ms Patsy Carr:

We work regularly on working groups with our colleagues in a number of Departments on the Make Work Pay and on the comprehensive employment strategy because from the specialist disability service side, we are working with people from a particular cohort. We want to get them into a day services that meet their needs and that are changing and evolving with their needs. Now we have people with disabilities living longer. I appreciate what the Senator said about pilots and that they should not end but sometimes what is required changes. We work collectively on that and the Department of Education and Skills would be involved as well in ensuring that people are trained to meet their needs.