Hildegarde Naughton (Galway West, Fine Gael)

This is a matter for the Minister for Health but we are all connected when it comes to that single point of access. I wish to point to the topic of therapists in schools for children. We are now ramping this up. I would like to see that connection between the in-school therapists, the CDNTs and the multidisciplinary team when we are going into schools with the highest needs. This will start in special schools and then rolling it out to the mainstream schools. I am now jumping ahead a few hurdles. Children will have access to the services they need. It might not be a speech and language therapist. It might be a psychologist. It might be a dietician. It might a social worker. People think it is a speech and language therapist, but I have spoken to therapists and they might go into a school but it is a social worker that is needed here initially.