Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein)
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When Professor MacLachlan says it is clinician-led, does he mean even a GP or does it have to be an occupational therapist? The professor works on the clinical side but, unfortunately, we do not have in this country a bit of empathy or a common-sense approach. In the majority of these schools, SNAs, teachers and principals go above and beyond because they are with them nearly as long as the parents, so they know the children. If I go back to that family and tell them to go to their GP, can the GP assist them and write a recommendation letter in order they can go to the Department of Education, outline the situation and ask for it to be sorted?