Dr. Cliodhna Foley-Nolan:

The Chairman is still missing the point a little. Those community and preschool programmes are conditioning parents to see that they need to be health aware in the same way as they need to be aware of children's hearing. Everyone knows a hearing problem will affect a child's speech and learning at school, but health awareness is still under the radar. We are working towards its normalisation, and then screening. They have to be hand in hand.