Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Thank you very much Ms Kearns. We have come to the end of our meeting. I found your contributions and the interaction between the members and yourselves to be very enlightening. What I have taken from it is that there is a lack of planning, a lack of co-ordination between services, a lack of multi-annual funding, a lack of training for our health professionals, teachers and employers and a lack of consultation with autistic people around all of those services. Much is lacking, so a lot of work is needed. Your contributions today will help to move that forward and inform us in our work going forward. Hopefully, we can deal with some of those issues. Again, thank you very much for your contributions.

The joint committee will hold a private meeting at 9 a.m. on Thursday, 11 November 2021, which will be followed by a public meeting at 9.45 a.m.