Thomas Byrne (Meath East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

This question was submitted before I was appointed and is very similar to the first question we put down. There is probably no particular need to further discuss it today, except to say that the issue of these long waiting lists is an absolutely critical one the Government must address, along with the point that we discussed earlier, that the needs of the child must be central to all of this and not necessarily the demographics if the waiting lists are to be addressed and if everybody is to have equal access to those assessments.

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