Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism

Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive

Mr. Brian Higgins:

Colleagues might wish to come in on this. The progression of the social model is across everything we are trying to do. We are moving in various components and personalised budgets are one component of that, as are the CDNTs. The totality will be a more community-based model but we are progressing various components of that. Within autism, as part of the awareness working group from the programme improvement piece, we are trying to ascertain all those section 38 and section 39 non-profits that support people with autism, to gauge that and then to make it publicly available. The pathway is a critical component, but there is the supportive piece whereby we can identify for individuals, in a way that will be publicly available, where the services that are closest to them are. It will also allow us to identify where those closest partners in the delivery are.