Seán Ó Fearghaíl (Kildare South, Fianna Fail)
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200. To ask the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the strategy to ensure services, care and accommodation for disabled people does not move in large measure to the private-for-profit sector as has happened with elder care services; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [39820/25]

Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)
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Service planning is principally an operational matter for the Health Service Executive (HSE). In that regard, I have referred this PQ to the HSE for direct response to the Deputy. It is worth noting that, at present, the largest share of funding for the provision of disability services goes to voluntary service providers, who receive approximately 72% of the available funding. The HSE itself spends around 17%, with the remaining 10% going to the for-profit sector.

This Government is committed to delivering a ‘step-change’ in disability services and providing services and supports for disabled people that will empower them to live independent lives, provide greater independence in accessing the services they chose and which enhance their ability to tailor the supports required to meet their needs and plan their lives.

In addition to existing work in this regard, the forthcoming National Human Rights Strategy for Disabled People, expected to be published later this year, will contain whole of government commitments for improved supports for independent living and to advance more inclusive services for disabled people, to be delivered more strategically over the course of the coming years.