James Reilly (Dublin North, Fine Gael)

Question 78: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the action she will take to address the long waiting lists for assessment and diagnosis of children suspected of having autism, which now stand at up to two years, given that there is a three-year window of opportunity to intervene to allow a child achieve his or her full potential and that to lose two of these years waiting for an assessment would be catastrophic; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [9774/08]

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