Ms Deirdre Kenny:

I do not know where the timeframe came from. The initial assessment was fairly time-bound and it led straight to interventions. The difference comes in that most parts of the country have not been reconfigured. These people are waiting on the AON and are not accessing intervention straight away. Between getting assessment of need and the time accessing intervention, there could be a gap of one, two or even three or four years in places. In doing a short summary assessment at the start, one cannot give the family something to go away with for the next four years. If there were reconfigured teams behind this, they could meet the families and set them on an intervention pathway very quickly. It relates to the nature of operations.