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

I will restate the question I asked earlier. We all know there is a huge amount of vacancy. Even if there have been improvements, when this workforce report was carried out there were, I think, 529.72 whole-time equivalent positions. We need to really ensure that is dealt with. Even if we fill those positions, though, does that mean we have a CDNT system that is actually able to deliver for those who require the assessments and then the therapies? The therapies are meant to follow but we know they do not at the moment.

There are also a huge number of schools saying they do not know where to put kids until they get an assessment. This is a huge issue across the board and unfortunately I feel like a broken record in here constantly repeating the same questions, but we need to get to a better place.

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