Micheál Carrigy (Fine Gael)
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I wish to raise another few issues before allowing my colleagues to come back in, one of which is administrative support for CDNTs. I have had this conversation in relation to other areas too, about solicitors, doctors and so on, having to type up reports and the significant amount of time that takes up. Would additional administrative support be helpful? Another issue is the training programmes for parents being rolled out by professionals. We met representatives of the Middletown Centre for Autism a number of weeks ago and we travelled to Armagh before Christmas to look at what is considered to be best practice. Should we be resourcing that organisation further so that its programmes can be rolled out across the country? In that way, the professionals could concentrate their efforts on providing services to the children.