Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 2 February 2023
Public Accounts Committee
2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021 (Resumed)
9:30 am
Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent)
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What I am really pointing out is that a child is often five or six when he or she gets a first assessment of need. Parents do not understand that they will need another assessment and how it operates within a timeline or that one starts again. They are not receiving the service that is required. They are receiving it for a five-year old when they are 13. They are now back to waiting for the statement because it all starts again.