Ms Martina Mannion:

To give the Deputy that reassurance, we work very closely with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth. As she knows, responsibility for disability services was transferred from the Department of Health to that Department in March this year. There is very close collaboration on that.

I will ask my colleague, Mr. Rogers, to respond regarding our new sign language scheme. We are recruiting people to work on that. The two new posts I talked about will identify where we need more sign language support. We will then engage with the Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth on how to better increase that.