Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Gabhaim buíochas le gach duine anseo. I was here and listened to the rest as I pretended to be in another meeting while paying attention. Our guests have dealt with a great deal of it. We are talking about a roadway, pathway and inclusion across the board. I am talking about those who are facilitated right through to, for example, Dundalk Institute of Technology, DkIT, where there is a certificate in independent living, as well as about regular courses and whatever else. It is the best means by which we can do it, whether we get on with the school inclusion model and that we move away from the pilot. As our guest speakers have said, we should move to use technology and we should get rid of the farce where people are being stuck in silos and where we have health versus education with regard to the children's disability network teams, CDNTs. As we also need to accept that we will not have all we need in the short term, what can we do? Any fix is a fix.

There are many positives around universal design, at least with regard to the conversation piece and moneys. None of that is good enough. As we are starting from way behind, what we need from the witnesses is a structured best-case scenario as to how to fix all of this and on what is the easiest way to do it. That is also to accept that we cannot sort out all of the workforce planning and all those issues or rather, we can have them sorted but that solution will take five years. We need to provide for kids and for citizens now. Gabhaim buíochas lenár bhfinnéithe go léir.