Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 October 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Autism

Autism Policy: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Alan Power:

I will follow on from what Ms Byrne is saying. I find it incredible that these decisions are made at the time of the PTA. All stakeholders were saying this was a bad idea and it went ahead anyway. We have to go back and understand who made the decision to go ahead with this. Where is the accountability around that? We will keep making the same wrong decisions if we do not examine that point and our children will suffer because of it. There needs to be accountability there.