Margaret Murphy O'Mahony (Cork South West, Fianna Fail)
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431. To ask the Minister for Health when the task force on personalised budgets will report. [30169/18]

Finian McGrath (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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In line with a commitment in the Programme for Government I established a Task Force on Personalised Budgets for People with Disabilities on 20 September 2016. The Task Force consisted of a Strategy Group and an Advisory & Consultative Group.  It included officials from the relevant Government Departments and agencies, HSE, academic and policy experts, stakeholder organisations and a wide range of people with lived experience of disability and disability services (both intellectual and physical). 

Its remit was to consider people whose primary disability was physical or sensory, intellectual, autism, neurological or any combination of these and to make recommendations on personalised budgets models which will give people with disabilities more control in accessing health funded personal social services, giving them greater independence and choice in accessing services which best meet their individual needs. I have considered the findings of the Task Force Report and intend to publish it in the near future.