Roderic O'Gorman (Dublin West, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

Deputy Brendan Smith raised this earlier. The road map sets out short- and medium-term solutions. On the shorter term solutions, it is the international recruitment that we are undertaking right now to look to bring in those therapists, the OTs and speech and language therapists, to relocate them here to Ireland to staff-up teams like that. We are doing that along with the introduction of the new assistant therapy grades, which are level 5 grades that can come in quickly and provide some interventions under the instruction of a therapist to help children and ultimately help their families as well.

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