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

I thank the Deputy very much for raising that issue. He is quite right. There are more than 17,000 children waiting for their initial appointment. He is also correct that in the past 12 months, we have reconfigured 91 teams all over the country to ensure that we now know how many children are on waiting lists and what the timeframe is. The Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, already spoke about what has been put in place. There is now a strategy in place to address it in order that we will get every child who has been waiting more than 12 months looked after as priority starting in January.

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