Ms Aoife O'Toole:

One of the other things that underpinned what happened in Australia was acknowledgement that government alone is not fully responsible to support people to have good lives. Good lives come from having loving family and friends around you, but also having sufficient funding. One of the things they did was invest in capacity-building strategies to support families and people with disabilities. The change process has taken many years in Australia and it will take many years in Ireland. Families continually telling their stories is quite distressing and they work when those stories translate into action. Putting more money into doing the same thing will not cut it anymore in Ireland. We really need to think differently. Money does not think; it is people who do. We need to get people around the table and use some of those design-thinking processes that will help us to create something different, and invest in families and people with disabilities themselves to be part of those solutions.