Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I was talking to a parent yesterday who is looking for a particular assessment. They will be waiting for two years for that and the child is five. I want to lead on to where that interacts with things like private assessment. If we had a strong protocol that was applied within the public sector, setting out the standard and the requirements, I presume that would have a knock-on effect in respect of the recognition of a diagnosis. I was very struck by the fact that the clinicians do not need a diagnosis. We are moving towards that. I want to come back to that point, but I think we still live in a world where a lot of doors, resource hours or whatever it might be are opened by a diagnosis. If we had a strict protocol, or at least an instructive one, would it force private assessment to that standard?