Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

On the aids and appliances, we provide a lot of capital funding. There must be an integrated single pathway for children and the provision of services. On the aids and appliances, some areas are now simplifying. No child should have to wait four years. The funding is there to make sure the child should get such a specialist bed. I remember in the southern area when there was rationing when five children would be done this month, for example, and then another five children would have to wait another three months for the next quarterly meeting or something like to be allocated. That is not good enough. The money is there. I believe that legacy funding needs in some organisations has, again, been picked up on by us in the context of provision. The reconfiguration of the HSE has to deliver. Work is going to be done there with reconfiguring the HSE but it simply has to deliver multidisciplinary teams. Every child needs multidisciplinary input.