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Sectoral Plan of the Minister for Social and Family Affairs (Section 33)

The Disability Act, 2005 requires the Minister for Social and Family Affairs to prepare a sectoral plan to contain (in addition to the general requirements in section 31) information concerning-

1. the criteria governing the eligibility of persons with disabilities for payments under the Social Welfare Acts and the amounts of such payments
2. the information, advice and advocacy services and sign language interpretation services provided or arranged to be provided to those persons by Comhairle
3. any other services provided by or on behalf of the minister which the Minister considers appropriate, and
4. such other matters as the minister considers appropriate

The Act also requires a sectoral plan by the Minister for Social and Family Affairs to provide for appropriate co-operation by the Minister and the Ministers for Health and Children and Enterprise, Trade and Employment in relation to the development and co-ordination of services provided by those two Ministers for persons with disabilities and related to the services referred to above provided to such persons.