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

I am a stickler for timelines. Key performance indicators will be set. Let there be no doubt about this. I will know exactly how many are on each team. I will know what the caseload is and I will meet with HSE officials on a monthly basis, with each of the CHOs and out of that, I will have the team leads and they will tell me exactly what they are delivering in respect of occupational therapy, speech and language therapy, physiotherapy, psychology and behavioural therapy. I will monitor them on a month-by-month basis. Once a month, I will sit down with all the team leads in disability services. There will be no hiding on the delivery of service. There will be no hiding under the rock from knowing what will be done. There will be open transparency and I will save every Deputy the trouble of tabling a parliamentary question wondering exactly where we are, because, I will release the figures on a monthly basis. There will be no hiding on this. We need to ensure there is complete and utter delivery of service for the families and, most important, the little ones who need that access-timely intervention. That is why I have been allocated the €10 million to which I am grateful to the Minister for having received.

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