Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I add my voice to the issue relating to the lateness of the leaving certificate results. It impacts on such institutions as Dundalk Institute of Technology, DKIT, in being able to offer positions to those coming from the North who may already have their offers of United Kingdom Accreditation Service, UKAS, positions. We need that to be dealt with.

I also have a question in regard to children’s autism services. We know we do not have the speech and language therapists, the occupational therapists and the psychologists. We need the workforce planning piece to be done. Moreover, we need to be able to offer services, not the silo services however. We know the issues that exist. Whether we are talking about primary care, child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, or disability services, there has to be no wrong door. We have to be able to offer people the best case scenario we can offer now, while filling all the positions that are unfilled in the very near future.

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