Olwyn Enright (Laois-Offaly, Fine Gael)

On the issue of therapies, some of which were mentioned by Deputy Twomey, while some physiotherapists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists and psychologists can gain employment, they are still not available locally, particularly for children who need such services. The waiting lists for the vast majority of those therapies are disgraceful, if people can get on them at all. Giving a child a few hours of speech and language therapy for a year is insufficient.

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