Gary Gannon (Dublin Central, Social Democrats)
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468. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide a copy of each annual S13 reports received from the HSE under the Disability Act 2005 since 2014; his views on instances where such reports are not available; and the way that this will be improved in the future. [46766/22]

Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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The HSE has prepared and presented S13 Annual Reports for the years 2007 to 2014 to the Department of Health. It is currently working on Reports for the years 2015-2020 to bring them up to date. It hopes to complete these reports by year end, furnishing each report to the Department as available.

One of the issues for the HSE which has caused delays in the preparation of the S13 Annual Reports, lies in the outdated database it is currently using to facilitate the case management, planning and reporting of assessments and services to children with a disability.

The HSE has advised that a National Management Information System for all 91 CDNTs is in development and, when implemented, will provide current data on waiting lists for all CDNTs. In the interim, manual data collection is on-going and will provide information to the local areas regarding the number of children waiting for each CDNT. The contract to develop and rollout CDNTIMS to all 91 CDNTs nationally formally commenced in May 2022. Rollout of the system will commence in Q4 2022 and completion is expected in Q3 2023.