Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein)

In a previous reply, the Minister for Health and Children, Deputy Harney, referred to the National Treatment Purchase Fund. Will the Minister of State, in the context of question I posed, indicate where stands the commitment in the programme for Government to ensure that any child under five waiting more than three months — not the two years to which Deputy Jan O'Sullivan refers — for occupational or speech and language therapy will be allowed to access these services automatically through the National Treatment Purchase Fund? How many children have been given such access?

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