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

I was also pleased to appoint an autism innovation strategy oversight and advisory group that has helped to reshape it. That is made primarily of people who are neurodivergent. I facilitate the gathering of the people but the people who are there are neurodivergent and are shaping the strategy. They are the ones who are setting out the various strands within it. I believe in the model of co-design but at this stage the co-design is of the neurodivergent persons as opposed to the officials within our Department. We are stepping back and providing secretarial support to enable it to come to complete fruition and I see the roll-out, follow-up and implementation in exactly the same way, with the oversight group and the advisory group overseeing it.

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