Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism

Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive

Professor Malcolm MacLachlan:

Broadly, how we get more from the same is by having tiered approaches to assessments and interventions. The preliminary team assessment, PTA, model was used in an assessment of need. In the documentation, Mr. O'Regan provided a table that shows a reduction in the number of assessments on the waiting list until this year, when we were no longer allowed to use the model. The numbers increased.