Written answers
Tuesday, 17 June 2025
Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth
Disability Services
Albert Dolan (Galway East, Fianna Fail)
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699. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth to provide a breakdown of total expenditure on disability services in each of the past five years (details supplied), in tabular form. [32155/25]
Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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The HSE is limited in its ability to disaggregate the Disability Services budget into specific service areas due to system and structure constraints. Due to this it is not possible to determine the exact cost of each category of service, but it can be estimated.
Using the % breakdown supplied by the HSE, the estimated split of the total annual allocation by service area, provided by the HSE, is set out in the Table below. Due to data constraints, these figures are to be taken as broadly indicative.
Service Areas€m | % of allocation | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Residential Services | 58% | 1,178 | 1,284 | 1,363 | 1,507 | 1,665 | 1,856 |
| Day Services | 25% | 500 | 545 | 578 | 640 | 706 | 788 |
| Respite Services | 4% | 85 | 93 | 99 | 109 | 120 | 134 |
| Personal Assistance and home Support Services | 5% | 93 | 101 | 107 | 119 | 131 | 146 |
| Multi-disciplinary Supports & Services | 6% | 124 | 135 | 143 | 158 | 175 | 195 |
| Community Supports & Services | 2% | 49 | 54 | 57 | 63 | 70 | 78 |
| Total | 100% | 2,029 | 2,211 | 2,347 | 2,596 | 2,868 | 3,197 |
Disability capital expenditure and annual allocations / budget for the same period is detailed below.
| Year of Expenditure | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Disability Capital Expenditure | 9.6mm | 7.3m | 5.2m | 15.3m | 23m | |
| Disability Capital Allocation | 16m | 20m | 12.6m | 21.3m | 23m | 27m |
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