Mr. Cathal Morgan:

I concur with what the Chairman said. If I were to leave the committee with three points, the first would be that we would like it if the committee could become a champion for the progressive disability services model because if we agree on the principle, then there should be no argument. The second point is about how we resource it. I mentioned support to Minister of State at the Departments of Health and Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth, Deputy Anne Rabbitte, and to services on the ground around implementing the capacity review report. Much effort by the officials of the Department of Health has gone into costing this. There is a plan that will help us from the point of view of publishing and implementing the report. That tells us what resources we need. The final piece is around the change that comes with the model. That brings change for us all, including for my colleagues around this table, but also for our colleagues who are on the front line. It is a different way of working; it demands change. Sometimes it demands that one leaves one's professional hat at the door and one puts the child and the family first. Change is difficult, but that is what we are asking our clinical colleagues to do, namely, to put the family and the child first.

I really hope it is not inappropriate but when we are through this pandemic and when things have settled, we would be delighted to facilitate the committee if it wished to go and see a network team in operation. We feel there is nothing as good as getting out there. I know members do this as political representatives but when the time is right, we would like to facilitate members if they wanted to see a network that is in operation and that could be an exemplar that we might have in all our community healthcare organisations, CHOs. We will leave that with members.