Mr. Mark Darmody:

No. It is exactly what he said in the Dáil yesterday, which is that they intend to roll it out in special schools but it was in special schools before. They were stripped to the bone. Without criticising him, he is trying to sell it as something new. It causes great offence in the disability community every time he says we have a pilot programme. It is not a pilot programme. It was there before, and with regard to the people who he is selling that to, their children have been damaged by these things. I am very concerned that nobody has actually knocked on the doors of psychologists or therapists to say to them that this is a time of emergency and we need their help.

Cara said we had 37 emails in the past two weeks. Our children do not need assessments, yet we have unsolicited psychologists saying, "We can assess the two of them. We think you are waiting for an AON".