Holly Cairns (Cork South West, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

No, these are for children trying to get from the Beara peninsula into Bantry for education purposes. I had a Topical Issue matter on it yesterday that was taken by the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte. The HSE gave a response stating that there was a bus service, and the Minister herself said that all she had to do was google it to realise there was not. The local Society of St. Vincent de Paul chapter and family resource centre had to put up the money to provide a temporary service. However, after Christmas there will be no service and it feels like while the model of care is there, the integration of that is not happening. We know that children's disability network teams, CDNTs, in general, are a failure at present. There is not one fully staffed team. As we have spoken at length about those issues at this committee, I will not go into them now. Does Ms McArdle feel these models are being integrated into the communities?