Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 May 2019

Committee on Budgetary Oversight

Annual Budget Disability Proofing: Disability Federation of Ireland

Dr. Joanne McCarthy:

That is a very interesting question. I love the first one and I love the more high level stuff. One of the key concerns of the DFI with last year's budget has been the fact that, looking at it from the top down, it seemed to us in our analysis and assessment that the disability budget is being increasingly consolidated around that core disability group, namely those 27,000 people and those 8,500 people in day services. There is very little available within the HSE disability spend.