Intellectual disability database at record high

A record number of people were registered last year on the National Intellectual Disability Database (NIDD).

There were some 28,108 individuals included in the database at the end of the year — the highest number since the register opened in 1996.

At 10.5 per 1,000 of the general population, Sligo had the highest NIDD registrations and Leitrim the lowest at 4.4. The national rate was 6.13.