HSE defies Disabilities Minister's order to spend less time on reports and more on therapies

In an email, it was stated that the Disabilities Minister, Anne Rabbitte (pictured), was "seeking for the HSE to pause the use of IFSPs until there has been a clear and continuing increase in the level of face-to-face interventions. File picture: Jim Coughlan.

The HSE has defied an order made by the Disabilities Minister to immediately halt time-consuming reports to focus on face-to-face therapies for children.

Anne Rabbitte wrote to HSE officials in March asking that documents that are compiled as part of the Progressing Disability Services (PDS) programme be stopped to free up staff to provide therapies.