Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 26 April 2023
Select Committee on Children and Youth Affairs
Estimates for Public Services 2023
Vote 40 - Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth (Further Revised)
Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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I have been Minister of State for the last two and a half years. I have shared my experience with the Minister, Deputy O'Gorman, and my frustration with the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, that we have the national policy on access, which is a HSE document that sets out how the integrated services work. We all believe in people having their own front door they can walk through, but when they get in there how are they signposted through? If I can be honest and share something again-----