Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael)
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If Ms McGrath does not mind, I might suggest that we need to do something more than take it away. If Ms McGrath is saying the school should apply to the HSE, there needs to be a resolution between the NCSE and the HSE. It is not a question of taking it away. It is a question of when my special school applies for OT equipment for the students there. They actually have a room. The committee visited it. They have a room there and they cannot use the equipment because they do not have the therapist to support it. I appreciate that is not directly for the NCSE. This is equipment that is in part there - they need more of it - but the students cannot use it because they do not have support. Even when they are applying, if the HSE is telling them that they are to apply to the NCSE, this is a real problem. This is something that needs to get resolved this week. There needs to be a resolution between the NCSE and the HSE this week so that those schools, when they apply on the next occasion, have total clarity.