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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, October 14, 2024

QUESTION NO.38

QUESTION: Councillor S. Moynihan

To ask the Chief Executive to specify the number of Medical Practitioners that are engaged by the Council in the determination of HMD1 forms, broken down by academic or medical qualification and the number determinations made by year for the years 2019-2024 and if he will make a statement on the matter.

REPLY:

The Council were advised by the Health Service Executive (HSE) in August 2023, that they would be longer be providing a service to sign off on HMD1 housing application forms. In the interim, a cross departmental committee was established comprising of senior management and our senior social worker within the Housing Department to assess submitted HMD1 forms for approval of medical applications. We are currently preparing a tender to procure an independent medical assessor. We also work closely with the members of the South Dublin Housing Disability Steering Group (HDSG) which consists of representatives from the HSE, disability sector (representatives from mental health, physical, intellectual and sensory), disabled persons advocates and approved housing bodies.

There are currently 392 medically approved applicants with a further 277 approved for supported living. Of these applicants 240 have been approved by the Council for ground floor accommodation with 105 persons requiring wheelchair accessible accommodation.