Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 28 February 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism

Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed)

3:15 am

Photo of Ruairí Ó MurchúRuairí Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Mr. Allen referred to assessment and intervention being one and the same thing. He has already referred to a review process to involve his organisation. In the short term, when we do not have the capacity to deliver everything, we can work out what we can deliver. Within that is an ask that there would be a forum to do that and that all the stakeholders would be there. That is the shooting match and the business end. If we could do that, everything else would fall into place.

On workforce planning, a promise has been made. There have been particular issues regarding psychologists. The witnesses mentioned some of them. They relate to cost, training and obstacles. Has enough work been done on that?

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