Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I wish the Taoiseach well, but I add my voice to what the rest of the Opposition said about the next Taoiseach and the Government, that is, that the decision should be made now and made by the people.

I want to follow on from Deputy Ó Laoghaire. We talk about the assessment of need backlogs and the people who cannot get assessments or therapies but we are not having the real conversation.

Even if we get the workforce planning right now, we know we cannot fill all of the positions in the children's disability network teams, primary care and everything that is needed. We know we have an issue with times in relation to the education system versus the health and medical options. We need to deliver a scenario in which we talk to the stakeholders, the therapists and psychologists, and come up with some sort of option for the best service we can offer as we strive to make sure we fill all of these positions. Otherwise, we will keep having the same conversation over and over again and fail a huge number of families.

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