Duncan Smith
Ceist:2038. Deputy Duncan Smith asked the Minister for Health the estimated cost of the full implementation of the Disability Capacity Review 2022; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [44122/22]
Amharc ar fhreagraThursday, 8 September 2022
Ceisteanna (2038)
Freagraí scríofa
The Disability Capacity Review to 2032 – A Review of Disability Social Care Demand and Capacity Requirements to 2032, published in July 2021, set out the additional capacity required in specialist disability social care services in the light of anticipated demographic change, and to address the gap between available services and the level of need.
The report gives a range of extra spending needed on different scenarios, from minimum to high. Those reflect different possible approaches to tackling unmet need, as well as data gaps where the implications of low and high values were set out. Therefore, the figures show the broad scale of future spending needed, not precise numbers.
Relative to 2018 costs, the Capacity Review found that spending on disability services would need to rise by between a quarter to a half to deliver the capacity required. That is between about €550m extra a year to around €1,000m extra a year, when compared to 2018 funding levels. All estimates were on a pre-Covid-19 basis.