Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for raising this two-pronged question this morning. Hopefully, on 1 March, I will be transferred. However, we have had a number of dates in the past so if the Deputy is writing it down I would write it in pencil. I hope it will happen on 1 March. That is a piece of work that is going on at the moment.

Regarding the disability capacity review action plan implementation, the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth will be doing the heavy lifting on that. We will be finalising the report. Most of the team are coming across with me from the Department of Health. The enabling works are under way with regard to finalising the disability capacity review. It is a ten-year plan but it is my ambition to launch it in phases, with the first in 2023-26. That will address the under-resourcing, the gaps and the unmet need within disabilities and particularly in disability specialist services right across the country.

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