National Consultative Forum

Meeting of HSE, Disability Representative Organizations and Agencies

Joint Communiqué 02.02.2012

The HSE Service Plan sets out a reduction of 3.7% in funding to disability services. However, the Service Plan states that at least 2% of this should not impact services and need to be generated from other savings and increased efficiencies.

As part of ongoing collaborative work of the National Consultative Forum a number of representative organisations and some of their membership met to begin a process with the HSE to identify and agree a framework for addressing efficiencies with clear actions and outcomes. to address required savings outlined in the National Service Plan across the disability sector with minimal impact on frontline services.

The initial steps identified will now be progressed through the work of the National Consultative Forum with additional engagement with representative organisations and agencies.