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.