Dr. Rosalyn Tamming:

We are working in a system where many of the CDNTs are understaffed. Staff have been taken from those teams and put into schools, where they will see the children in the school but many of those children do not come from their CDNT, so there are certainly fewer staff at the CDNT level to see the remaining children. That is just the way it is. I visited one of the schools in Cork recently. I cannot remember how many children were there, but let us say there were 100. Children came from 11 different CDNTs to that school. The level of communication the therapist in the school had to have with all the different teams was huge. Liaison and co-ordination take up a huge amount of therapists' time. We need to get to a system that is more seamless and more co-ordinated so that therapists can spend more time on therapies than on co-ordination. I am not saying that piece is not important - it is crucial - but there may be ways it can be done better.