Dr. John Hillery:

Professor Lucey in his previous role may have been involved in some publications that looked at this. Anecdotally from my experience, as late as last week I met a young woman who had been out of service since Covid because her service closed down when she had Covid. For some reason she has not got back in again. She is sitting at home colouring in her front room. She is missing the service. There has been an administrative lag due to Covid. It was a big deficit for many people.

An interesting point is that some autistic people who were being sent to services that did not suit them blossomed during Covid when they were no longer being sent to places they did not want to go. That is another day's work.

Overall, I think there has been a bit of a problem. Perhaps Professor Lucey wishes to contribute.