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

I totally understand what the Deputy is saying. When the court judgment came in March 2022, PTAs were stood down completely. They stopped. That was a decision that we made at that stage within the Department of Health. We did not challenge it. We reverted back to the original assessment of need process. The PTAs no longer exist. They had been in operation from January 2020 to when they were stood down in March 2022. The children who are in that particular bundle now have to go through the proper assessment of need process, which is what the clinical governance is for. At the moment, some of them are going through the old assessment of need, which is not timebound. That is the process at the moment. Children are not waiting. They are going through that process at the moment but let me reassure everybody that the PTA has been stood down and is null and void.

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