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

It was quite powerful when Ms O'Donovan was speaking about the difference in services before 2013. Most of the issues in terms of waiting lists etc. are coming down to the progressing disability services, PDS, plan and the issues with children's disability network teams, CDNTs. Different professionals in the industry and different speech and language therapists seem to have different views. At this stage, does PDS just need to be scrapped? Are we so far in that we need to keep pursuing this and make it work? Do the witnesses feel there is hope for it working at this stage or do they think going back to the previous model is better? I hear different things from different professionals in the field. I do not hear much from families in terms of an opinion on that. I do not expect the witnesses to know but I am curious to hear what they think.