Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Let us be clear. In 2020, I cleared a list of 6,700 in a 12-month period. This was for completion of a full assessment of needs within the 36-hour period. We cleared the list then. That was during Covid times when therapists could not go into schools or meet families. It was all online. There were some lessons from this whereby we were able to do some of it online. There was a hold-up because we could not access schools. We need to take what was good from that period, which was some of the online approaches. At the same time, we were able to crank through it. We were able to offer clinicians opportunities for overtime. They were offered opportunities for Saturday work. This market is no longer there.