Dr. Aideen Hartney:

I will answer the question regarding decongregation first. The HSE implementation of the time to move on policy is about decongregating people with supports and putting in those wraparound supports. I am not in a position to speak about the examples that HIQA spoke of. The project we examined focused on people with intellectual disabilities moving out of campus-based services into homes within the community. That is where I referred to the quality of life outcomes being improved but that is predicated on the necessary supports being in place.

In relation to the human rights strategy, what we are advising and working with the Department on is how a monitoring framework for that strategy would be outcomes focused in order to move us from areas where further attention is required up a ladder. In some areas, we are poorly performing in comparison with our European colleagues. In other areas, however, we are not worst in class. It is important those areas are also ones that are important to disabled people.