Michael Moynihan (Cork North West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

In terms of the therapies - occupational, speech and language and psychological - this is something we might come back to at a committee level in order to explore the effect the shortages are having on the therapies being available. Mr. Brennan so rightly referred to the flight of therapists when they qualify and that is something that needs to be targeted if we are serious about having a more equitable society and having the therapies available.

On behalf of the committee, I sincerely thank our witnesses for their honesty and for bringing to us the challenges facing the USI as we feed into the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disability, UNCRPD, and aligning education.

Again, I sincerely thank our witnesses for coming in and for their information. If there is any information, however small, they should please forward it to our committee because we are reaching out to try to get as much information as possible from all the stakeholders. If there is anything they think we should be updated on, they should please feel free to feed it into our team or any of the members.