The additional revenue funding of €70 million and €60 million capital funding provided in 2005 for services for people with physical, sensory, intellectual disabilities, autism and mental illness is being used to put in place a broad range of new and enhanced services around the country. These include, among others, new residential, respite, day and home support services, together with enhanced access to child and adolescent mental health treatment services.
As outlined by the Taoiseach at the launch of the national disability strategy last September, the Government is committed to building on and accelerating the measures which it has taken in recent years to strengthen the capacity of the health services to respond to the identified needs in support services for people with disabilities and to implement the provisions of the proposed Disability Bill 2004 and other relevant legislative measures.