Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There are 12,157 children waiting on primary care appointments in community healthcare organisation, CHO 5, with 4,210 children waiting 12 months or more. These figures include: 1,533 children who are waiting for psychology services; 2,189 children waiting for occupational therapy; and 4,139 children waiting on speech and language therapy. I raise this continually with the Taoiseach and it is a shocking matter. In south Tipperary, the children's disability network teams, CDNTs, are practically non-existent at this stage. What is worse, some children who had been receiving primary care treatment have been sent on to the CDNTs and they are getting no call at all. This is shameful and it is abuse of children. The HSE and the Department have to pony up here. It is just not good enough that children who badly need these services are languishing. Some have had some services but they were transferred to a different team and now they are getting none. It is not acceptable in this day and age and I have asked the Taoiseach about it countless times.

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