Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The waiting list system was changed a couple of years ago, and with good reason. I wish to focus on young children whose parents assess that there is an intellectual disability but cannot get a formal assessment until the child is five for cognitive processing reasons.

How do we support those parents who feel their children will need to be in a special school, but they cannot get their name down anywhere? In my area for example, even if those places were available, how do they deal with the absence of the waiting list system?