Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 October 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

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

9:00 am

Ms Vickie Kirkpatrick:

Without a clear audit of who the AON applications are made by, it is difficult to say. Perhaps the HSE has drilled down into the type of people on those AON wait lists, the scope and the access to service they are seeking.

There is also suspicion that people access the waiting list as a way to access service rather than accessing their disability rights. Does that make sense?