Joan Collins (Dublin South Central, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There are 298 children on the Dublin south west school age team's waiting list. A further 18 are awaiting transition from the early intervention team to the school age team's waiting list. The waiting time to see the school age team is 41 months which is growing monthly in circumstances in which the team does not have the capacity to safely take on additional cases. There has been no movement on the waiting list in the past ten months. This situation has developed in the past few years. The limited human resources to address waiting lists for intervention, coupled with demand and high deprivation in the area, have been widely reported on. I ask for immediate intervention to resolve this shameful situation.

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