Ms Angela O'Neill:

In areas where the services have reconfigured to network disability teams, the pathway is fairly clear for GPs such that if a child is living in area X and presenting with significant difficulties, he or she should go to team A. In areas where services have not yet reconfigured, it is almost impossible to navigate the system and it is difficult for families, GPs and teachers to know what to do because one service caters for people over six with intellectual disability, another for preschoolers with intellectual disability and another provides services for physical disability but if the child has both, nobody knows where he or she should go. The reconfiguration will address that but it is very unclear in some parts of the country.