Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 2 June 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Joint Meeting with Joint Committee on Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Progressing Disability Services: Discussion

Ms Yvonne O'Neill:

Although the CHOs are responsible for the implementation and delivery, through my office at national level there is oversight through our primary care structures. We are trying to enhance the supports relating to that. The CDNTs we mentioned will be a good construct for that. We are working to standardise the way in which children are assessed and are streamed from least complex to most complex. Coming back to the point we made earlier, this means that we understand what the child's needs are. It is about the child first and then their needs come after that. That is all part of the implementation of the national access policy.