Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

I will begin the response to this and the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, will come in after. That family does approach me in my own constituency and no doubt approaches the Minister of State also. On a daily basis, canvassing, I meet that family. I say to them that we recognise the huge challenges in the area of disability and that we are looking to make change. This is why we moved it out of the Department of Health and into our Department. That is going to take some time. I have to be honest with people that it is going to take some time. We see the most immediate challenge in children's disabilities. That is what the roadmap is for. The roadmap is focused on children's disabilities and primarily the CDNTs, trying to look at every mechanism that we can to help keep the existing staff and bring more staff in. Some of them are more quickly done than others. The CAO is the most important thing and that we are training more every year but obviously this takes four years before they are delivered.