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

Absolutely. The first part of the autism innovation strategy was to bring a whole-of-government approach to ensure that we created awareness in all Departments. Some of the time we would say that there was a lot of low-hanging fruit in a lot of the Departments but while working on some of that low-hanging fruit, we gather the data at the same time. It feeds into the national disability strategy as well so it is not in a silo. There is a whole mainstreaming-first approach but also feeding in and gathering the data so we can enable Departments to have ring-fenced budgets to ensure full and equal inclusion and participation of the neurodivergent community as well as the disability community among all the Departments.

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