Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

And more. That is my point. What the Cathaoirleach was talking about this morning, and what the HSE said, is that the Minister's proposal to staff disability respite services with agency staff was a non-runner because they could not access. This is clearly not a non-runner. There are people who can do these assessments. It is the want for paying for it. We do not need it to go to the NTPF, but it is very unfair on the basis of what applied if one needed one's hip replaced, and it was not done inside six months. We know from the UN that basically, children should not have to go to court. Parents should not have to go to court to have these assessments carried out, but when they do, they are automatically assessed. That should not be the system. We need to categorically decide if we are going to pay for this. Clearly it is a deficit within the HSE and service providers.