HSE promise on care places ‘won’t happen’

A PROMISE of more than 1,000 new residential care places for the intellectually disabled over the next four years cannot be met because of inaccurate costings by the Health Service Executive (HSE), disability groups have claimed.

Yesterday the HSE announced it would fund 255 extra residential places each year up to 2009 for both the intellectually disabled and those with autism.

However, the National Parents and Siblings Alliance (NPSA), an umbrella group for 52 disability bodies, said they did not believe the HSE could deliver.