Mr. Bernard Gloster:

Yes. In respect of the case of the school in Waterford that the Deputy cited, I am the first to admit, and I will put my hands up in saying, that the south east is particularly challenged with the model, more so than other parts of the country are. I am very anxious to get behind that and I have met people there myself. I am anxious to try to improve it. I have met people who left teams, in a very safe way, to allow them to tell me exactly why they left. I really am trying to get under the bonnet of this but the solutions are not simple. We struggle to a huge degree to provide responses to children with autism and to families as a result.

I accept the point about the terminology and language we use. To be fair, the roadmap is the roadmap - it is officially called that - because it sets out the milestones by which we are accountable, the first of which was that new, accelerated recruitment campaign two weeks ago, which I talked about earlier. I am not proud of where we are in our response, but I am in no doubt that we are making improvements.