Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

The HSE cannot say how many of those children were assessed, whether a diagnosis was determined or given and whether they have now been put onto another waiting list. The whole purpose of this was not simply to get children from one waiting list to another waiting list. The purpose should have been to give them an assessment. I find it unusual that we do not have those figures when we are one year and two months into this process. The HSE cannot provide figures on how many children have been given a diagnosis following that 90-minute assessment. I would have thought that if the HSE officials maintain the system works, then such data would be the key metric that the officials would be looking to provide us with. Surely the HSE assesses a certain number of children and, of these, a certain number have been given a diagnosis and are now getting intervention. This is what matters rather than the number of children the HSE has moved from one waiting list to another waiting list.