Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 May 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Noreen O'Leary:

We need to be cognisant of those children because, potentially, those are the children for whom things are reaching crisis point. Moreover, families feel they have no choice but to leave children, as the Deputy said, at respite or emergency services.