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Selina Doyle

Oct 5, 2026

2:57
And I guess today what I really wanted to dig into with you, if possible, is is what makes community living and an ordinary life actually possible? And how do we reframe it and reimagine it and live it as being about belonging, with people being seen and loved, known in our communities, as opposed to being placed there? So do you want to tell us a bit about the history of how people were supported at Aurora and the process of when people started to move out of maybe the larger institutional settings, how that all began and what did you learn together along the way?
3:36
So I came to Aurora in 2016.
3:39
Aurora was previously known as St. Patrick's Centre in Kilkenny and would have been a disability service from the 60s.
3:46
It was a campus-based institutional style kind of accommodation for, at that point, 92 individuals with disabilities, all adults at that time.
3:56
The majority of people come in as very young children into a regional disability service.
4:00
So Many people moved away from their families and counties, home counties, into a regional setting because that was what was all on offer at the time.
4:09
And in terms of why that needed to change, so we had our national policy 2012, Time to Move On, which recognised as a state that institutional living on a campus in a congregated manner did not serve people well.

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11:56
So I'd love to hear more about that, Selina.

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