Mr. Tiernan O'Neill:

We are blessed in Limerick city that we have phenomenal practitioners working in the CDNTs, but they are drowning. The south city children's disability network team is in one of the most disadvantaged areas of the country. That was configured in about 2021. It would initially have had a caseload of 120 children. It now has almost 600 children. As of the summer just gone, its staffing in that time period increased by 0.4 of a WTE. You have one speech therapist trying to work with 400 children with additional needs in one of the most disadvantaged communities in the country.