Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 8 November 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Rights-Based Care for People with Disabilities: Discussion

Photo of Pauline TullyPauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)
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I ask the witnesses to comment on those points.

The recently launched roadmap for disability has indicated an overall strategy of working better together. We need to ensure that happens in the shortest possible time.

On the HSE and Tusla working together, I have heard stories of the HSE using Tusla as a threat to parents who are perhaps just expressing exasperation in trying to support their families. I know that Tusla is there to support families. It is not there to take away children, but that seems to be the threat.