Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism

Autism Policy and Health: Health Service Executive

Professor Malcolm MacLachlan:

The first egg has been laid. We have an interim report that will be publicly available in a couple of weeks. I am sure it will be shared with this committee. That is the first part of the assessment process for the protocol.

The second part of that assessment process should be complete in March. That will be the second egg. The data available at that stage will allow us to convert the number requiring assessments to the different types of assessments liable to be required. We can then project that directly into the clinical hours involved.