Disability Services
Dail Éireann — 2026-09-17
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Emer Higgins (FG), Dublin Mid-West

The HSE has decided not to publish it. This is its report and it is not for me to publish it. I will provide the Deputy's feedback to the HSE and I ask that he do the same. It is important to note that the HSE report was baseline to help inform current need and capital planning. What my the Minister, Deputy Foley, I and the team in the Department are doing is working to provide a disability capacity review to 2040 that will look further to the future and will have wider scope. That is the report that is most relevant here. It is important that we publish it afterwards and that we work hard to ensure it gives a holistic and accurate view of the current landscape and future needs. That is why we are focusing on that report. An awful lot of work has gone into it. I have mentioned the national disability support system, the CDNT information management system, the HSE day services and the census. Many data points are going into this. That report will give us the information that we need to be able to plan better. That is the report that I am focused on.

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Sitting date: 2026-09-17