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
Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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From the time the parent brings his or her child to the GP and the GP agrees to have the child assessed, in the south east it will take two and a half years for the child to be assessed. If one is bringing in a two and a half year old boy or girl, the child will be five by the time he or she is assessed.