Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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My point is that people do not get the services in a universal way. I am sorry to cut across Ms O'Connor. That may be so in some community healthcare organisation, CHO, areas. The witnesses will be aware that the Ombudsman for Children is doing a report on the consistency across CHO areas, which is due to be published in 2022. Certainly, in my own area of CHO 6, it is not so for the volume of parents who are contacting me. I am involved with Ballyowen Meadows Special School in Loughlinstown. It is a very interesting place to get an assessment more broadly, because children are coming from a range of CHO areas.

I met the parents, teachers and the principal some weeks ago. Clearly, there are very different experiences for children and families depending on the CHO area they are in. Therefore, while I appreciate that what Mr. Reid might be saying is accurate at a macro level, I assure him it absolutely it is not so.