Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I will try to hit five.

I will start locally, for the Minister and I. We received figures, recently enough, that the CHO for our area has sanction for 14 mental health professionals to support children with disability - an extraordinarily important and worthy set of supports.

Not a single one of those has been filled. From the 14 sanctioned posts, zero has been filled. This means children with disabilities all over Wicklow are not getting the mental health supports they are meant to be getting where posts have been sanctioned. Will the Minister provide an update as to why so this is such a chronic problem, and will anything happen?