Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 November 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Aligning Disability Services with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Lorna McGreehan:

I think it was because I did not attend a consultant locally. The local consultants looked after their patients, as one would expect them to do. In Dublin, the country bumpkins were expected to be dealt with locally. The GP tried to source a vaccine. I eventually had it administered at my GP's clinic, but there was a bit of a lag. If the HSE had an overall register of where each person with a particular condition is living, it could organise services accordingly and those services could feedback into the system with regard to the need for days off to ensure that people are not spoofing the system. Does that make sense?