Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 8 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism

Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Michael Hegarty:

I want to address the question relating to funding for sports and recreation. We have a large service, so it is not just equine therapy we are providing. We have 18 residential centres. We have 28 day service centres and hubs, and a multidisciplinary team, MDT, spread across south-west County Limerick, and north Cork. We get funding from the HSE towards sports and recreation and through our physiotherapy department to keep people fit. We have residents too, so we funnel some of that money over to the equine therapy. We have one dedicated post specific to equine therapy funded by CHO 3.