Keira Keogh (Mayo, Fine Gael)
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One issue I see coming up is that, even for those who manage to get a device, we do not have a mechanism whereby they automatically get a new device if it is broken or if the battery dies. It is a very serious issue. In some schools, the noises of the AAC devices are disturbing other children but those devices are these children's voices.

Ms Walsh has been far too quiet so I will come to her next. On head 16 and the question of whether the 12 months is too much or not enough, last week, we were given the example of somebody who is denied the chance to rent a house because he or she is on HAP and then ending up in emergency accommodation. By the time that is sorted, 12 months may have passed. We had an organisation here last week that felt 12 months was not enough. I am interested because Ms Walsh has a different take on that.