Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 October 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Health and Well-being for Persons with Disabilities: Discussion

5:30 pm

Mr. Greg Dempsey:

I will start off with the first question and I will then ask colleagues to come in. As I referred to earlier, we simply do have a shortage in skill sets. Demand is coming from the children's disability network teams, CDNTs, from the primary care waiting list, and the assessment of needs. We are looking at various ways to respond and mitigate those. One of those initiatives involves the two Departments together looking at the different ways we use those scarce resources. I do not have more detail than that. Ms O'Brien will talk briefly about what we are doing on the primary care waiting list.