Marc Ó Cathasaigh (Waterford, Green Party)
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That answer is tangential to the question I put. On a population-wide level, we should be able to model this. We should have an understanding of how many people in a given cohort are likely to have autism.

Whatever knowledge we have about the different tiered structures and the level of assessment that is needed, we should be able to infer and model on a population-wide basis how many people we understand to require tier 1 and tier 2 services, and the total number of man and woman hours we are going to need in order to provide the level of assessment we need. Do we have that kind of modelling?