Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

There is no registry, as such, for autism, but the prevalence and incidence of it is reasonably well researched so there is a good handle on the numbers and therefore on the numbers of staff. The issue is trying to have a tiered model which can deal with those at the low complexity end so that the children's disability network teams, when we can get them up to their full complement – they are not there yet – and the other teams are better able to deal with them. As far as I am aware, there is not a specific registry of people with autism.