Anne Rabbitte (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

We did incredibly well to ensure we had a full-time committee on disabilities established and I ask the Deputy to write to its proposed new Chairman to outline her requests and see if they can form part of the work programme and the committee's planned schedule.

In order to lead implementation, the HSE set up the national autism spectrum disorder programme, consisting of senior operational and clinical decision makers, as well as independent professional academic support and two individuals with lived experience of autism. The €2 million was secured in budget 2020 for the autism plan and the board was to establish two working groups, one dealing with assessment and pathways and the other to deal with the awareness stream. The pathways group was to help identify a standardised assessment approach for using all autism services and ensure every assessment is accessible and to an agreed standard, regardless of which service is being accessed.

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