Róisín Garvey (Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I am happy to listen to our visitors because they have a lot more experience than me. The big issue for me is that every single parent I know who has a child with autism seems to have to run an individual campaign to fight for his or her child's rights. That is why I am a member of this committee but I want to listen to the people who have a lot more experience and hear from them what we need to do to help. At the end of the day, I do not have any personal experience in this area. I have friends who have children with autism but all of them seem to have to fight individual battles. It is just insane. We need to find a uniform way of helping and I am glad that we have this committee. I must commend the Chairman on creating this committee so that we can focus on finding some sort of system to support the people who need it. In that sense, I would rather listen to the experts we have here today.