Ciarán Cannon (Galway East, Fine Gael)

Following on from the publication of the code of practice, I will undertake to discuss this with my officials. My sense is that as much streamlining as possible has already been carried out. There is a significant amount of tendering for unique, tailored services responding to the needs of individual children, but the tendering process, by law, is a pretty convoluted one, and there are certain timeframes and periods of assessment that simply must be complied with. They are feeding the delays in the process and there is nothing we can do about that. I will undertake to liaise again with my officials to see whether any further streamlining can be achieved.

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