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

What we are achieving with AIM is obviously very much focused on early years and allowing the greatest degree of integration possible in order that children are able to participate within the mainstream ECCE programme, initially just for three hours per day, five days a week, but subsequently increasing that according to the additional funding.

Children with a physical, intellectual or sensory disability have a range of other needs. Many of those are being addressed under the children's disability network teams that the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, spoke about earlier on. We are acutely conscious of the insufficient level of staffing across many of our CDNTs. That is why I and the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, published the roadmap for progressing disability services a number of months ago and why, later this afternoon, Deputy Rabbitte and I will be publishing the disability action plan setting out our steps to improve capacity in disability services for adults and children over the next three years and the investment that will be needed to secure that.

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