Catherine Murphy (Kildare North, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I raise the issue of services being rationed by the HSE. The executive will only provide one therapy at a time. Let us take, for example, a child who is neurodivergent and requires several therapies, such as occupational and speech and language therapies. That child will not get parallel services even if they are vital to his or her needs. If a child goes onto a children's disability network team, CDNT, list, the HSE takes that child off its list and he or she is denied services. The CDNTs currently have 16,500 children on waiting lists, with 10,500 on those lists for more than a year. Will the Taoiseach address the policy of rationing vital services, and the absence of services, with the CDNTs? It is impacting really seriously on children who need multiple services.

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