Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 March 2022

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Angela O'Neill:

We have been working with our colleagues in the Department of Health around the requirements to provide the reports under section 13. The challenge for us is that, when the Act was written, there was an assumption - perhaps a naive one - that an assessment would be provided for a child saying that he or she needed X number of hours of speech and language therapy and Y number of hours of physiotherapy, the child would then get a service statement setting out that we could provide this other figure, one would be subtracted from the other and the gap would be identified. The aggregate gap at the end of every year would identify clearly what the gaps were. That was-----

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