Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

That is not what home sharing relates to. Home sharing relates to a situation whereby - this goes along with the decongregation agenda - one can safely and appropriately enable a number of people with disabilities to share a space within the community. If I did not explain that clearly, I am happy to do so now.

The Deputy is correct, and there is no point in beating around the bush. There is no centrally maintained list of people awaiting these services. It is not that I have an answer that I am simply not providing the Deputy. This is done on a community health organisation, CHO, level. As with our waiting list conversations, we must find a way of seeing the full range of needs. The HSE is working on better co-ordination of the existing residential base through the establishment of a residential executive management committee in each CHO and the development of an eHealth case management system that will facilitate better and more effective management and tracking of all residential and home support-emergency respite services across all CHOs and for each funded service provider. We do not want each CHO to be a silo. This system will provide a detailed inventory and a bed registry map of current service capacity, which will help us to match capacity to demand. I will be happy to share further information on this with Deputy O'Reilly.

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