Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion

9:00 am

Ms Aoife O'Malley:

Our main issue is with resourcing. It simply is not possible. There are a number of occupational therapists and other clinicians working in a uni-disciplinary manner at the moment because of lack of reconfiguration. Even within reconfigured services there is still under-resourcing and understaffing.

It would simply be impossible to do this type of assessment without the staffing.