Pat Rabbitte (Dublin South West, Labour)

The Tánaiste said that ten years ago we did nothing. Those children are aged three and a half and four and a half years. They were not born when we were in government. If the basis of our exchanges are to be what happened ten years ago, from the man who said he would abolish stamp duty because we did not need the resources, what is the point in telling these parents we have the most advanced laws? Where are the services? It is not about law. There is one occupational therapist for 409 children. The parents in acute distress take the trouble to prepare and send a file to the Tánaiste in the belief that he took the equality part of his portfolio seriously and he does not even bother to acknowledge it——

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