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Inclusion Ireland Announces Government Budget Plans for Intellectual Disability
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Tuesday December 12, 2006 14:51 by M Cotton
Budget 2007: Funding for new and enhanced services Brian Cowen, Minister for Finance announced in his Budget speech on 6th Dec 06 an additional 100m to fund health related disability and mental health services in 2007. This funding incorporates the 2006-2009 multi-annual funding promised under the National Disability Strategy. Below is a breakdown from the Dept of Health & Children of the additional funding: |
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Jump To Comment: 1 2As is alluded to in the report above the National Intellectual Disability Database is in a state of confusion. First off, new residential places are being made available for people with autism and yet the vast majority of people diagnosed with ASD are by definition not on the database under its own rules about who gets to be included. That would be one reason why the government appears to be providing more places than its own database is telling them is needed - because it has a huge problem with all those 'non existent' people. Of course the number of new places is any case woefully inadequate. Intellectual disability means you have an IQ of 70 or lower. Sometimes people have both ID and autism.
The allocation of a bereavement grant for people on Carers Allowance when their disabled family member dies is outrageously overdue, of course. To think that it has taken until 2006 to acknowledge this appalling oversight is indicative of how begrudging successive governments have been where PWD and their hamstrung carers have been.
The allocation of 5m for voluntary service providers with core funding deficits is a pittance in comparison to what is needed. Almost every service provider in the country could use 5m to make up the shortfalls they are forced to live with in the provision of desperately needed therapeutic services.
The loss of supported employment places is lamentable. People want to be independent and much much more needs to be done to facilitate people into employment.
the IDD is indeed in disarray. their failure to recognise autism as a seperate catagory can only be described as complete incompetance. my autistic child is 13 and has been interviewed for the physical and sensory disability database. its no wonder that the waiting list for residential places has gone up fron 1600 in 2004 to 2124 by dec 2006. will somebody take the bull by the horns and replace these people with people who actually know the purpose and function of a database.