Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 October 2022
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)
9:30 am
Mr. Stephen Mulvany:
I agree. That relationship around services for residential provision, education and social care services between ourselves and other Government agencies is a complex one, as the Deputy knows. Progressing disability services is one of the ways we are trying to improve that. Clearly, in the Deputy's example, there may be tensions as to how well or not it is working. We are aware many of our section 39 organisations and, indeed, our own services, have been under pressure to provide sufficient residential capacity, particularly as we had a very positive experience as regards improved regulation over the years. The issue is it has not been possible for the investment to keep up with that and we have lost a level of capacity. We know we have challenges in providing residential accommodation to people. That is an accepted point. I do not know if Mr. McCallion wants to make any comment.