Ms ?ine Lawlor:

There is also an issue that a parent may pay privately for an assessment, but because of equity in public services, they are still going to wait in a system for an assessment, if that makes sense. We already have huge inequalities in our services. We cannot have a system where a family is going off and paying privately for an assessment; despite their need to do that, they are skipping families who possibly are not able to pay for an assessment. It might be a case sometimes where families feel they have paid for that and they ask why they have to go through the process of waiting. It is unfair but there is inequity across the board in both of those things.