Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for raising this important question. I think all of us, across our constituencies, are running into the same difficulties and doing the best that we can to help parents and families who are facing unacceptable delays for assessments of needs and for therapies thereafter. The Government is fully behind the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, in her efforts to improve the situation. The difficulty we are running into is not so much a lack of political will or a lack of finance, but being able to find the staff with the appropriate skills to fill the positions available. That is a real challenge, but we are not going to leave any stone unturned on this.

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