Catherine Murphy
Question:1407. Deputy Catherine Murphy asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the estimated full year cost of providing 650 extra adult day service places. [1095/24]
View answerWednesday, 17 January 2024
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Adult day services are HSE funded programmes to provide day service supports to people, age 18 and over, with intellectual disabilities, autism, or people with complex physical disabilities. These services are demand led and the number of new places in any year reflects the number of applications from young people leaving school. Additional funding of €18.2m in 2024 will support approximately 1,400 people with disabilities who are leaving school to transition into adult day services from September. Once vacancies are taken into account, and in the light of demographic change, approximately 1,200 new places are needed in 2023 to ensure all eligible school leavers can get a day service place.
As this question refers to service matters, I have asked the Health Service Executive (HSE) to respond to the Deputy directly, as soon as possible. As the Deputy may be aware, the industrial action that commenced on Friday 6th October, by management and administrative grades in Fórsa Trade Union in the HSE, will impact on the response times to Parliamentary Questions and Representations.