Claire Kerrane (Roscommon-Galway, Sinn Fein)
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415. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the funding that will be made available as confirmed by her to a person (details supplied) in April 2021 to allow their critical research into children with intellectual disabilities and autism which parents and families are waiting on to begin. [58971/21]

Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party)
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The Minister of State with Special Responsibility for Disability, Ms. Anne Rabbitte TD, recognises the value of the research in question, and had suggested to the person concerned that a potential avenue to progress the research could be via an application for funding through the Disability Participation and Awareness Fund (DPAF), which was launched on 18 October this year.

The purpose of DPAF 2021 is to provide funding for Local Authorities across Ireland to support the participation of people with disabilities in local activities, to help remove barriers to community involvement, and to support the promotion and implementation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) in communities.