Jennifer Carroll MacNeill (Dún Laoghaire, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

My question is similar to those of Deputies Guirke and Gino Kenny. Enormous funding has been put in place by the Government to deliver these services but they are not being delivered by the HSE. That is an ongoing difficulty. I thank the Minister of State for her help and support in my constituency, where I am raising matters relating to early intervention and trying to get Ballyowen Meadows Special School to offer to do a second early intervention class. I have, however, not received any responses from the HSE. This is hard to understand. Earlier, I participated in the first meeting of the specially dedicated Joint Committee on Autism. It is great that it has been established, but the HSE needs to respond to our ongoing questions about delivery of services. I am aware of the work that the Minister of State is doing but I use this opportunity to ask her to urge the HSE to step up and to get the area assessments done in my constituency, provide the extra early intervention class and respond to the ongoing questions from special schools when they are looking for help?

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