Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 June 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion

9:00 am

Ms Aoife O'Malley:

Not necessarily. Currently, when the primary care clinician refers into the service, the child is placed on a waiting list for two and a half years for diagnostic assessment. As part of that diagnostic assessment, the assessment of need under the Disability Act is completely currently and then there will be a further referral to an internal waiting list for intervention. The statutory assessment needs to be completed, obviously, because it is a statutory assessment.