Ms Breda Crehan-Roche:

In response to the question from Deputy Dillon, I am pleased to say that in community healthcare west all teams will be in situand will have commenced work by the end of quarter 2 of this year. The objective of all CHOs is to implement the children's disability network teams. Mention was made of the three posts. Those posts have been offered and they will be commencing.

On monitoring, we do quarterly reports and I also chair the national progressing disabilities steering group. We meet monthly and the group includes representatives of all the stakeholders, including parents. We go through a tracker document for all nine CHOs in detail every month. There is therefore monitoring and we account for our stewardship and the resources we are provided.

We are certainly on track in the west and making good progress. We will have the assessments of need completed by the end of this month. I hope that addresses Deputy Dillon's questions.