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Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (21 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 155. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the development of a business case for a modular catheterisation laboratory for the south east; the decision date for the business case; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27146/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Reports (26 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 300. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the report due to be published by the HSE working group established to examine lymphoedema services here; the publication date for the report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [27386/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 144. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the works schedule for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28245/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 145. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the estimated completion date for a school (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28246/18]

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Schools Building Projects Status (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: 146. To ask the Minister for Education and Skills the contingency planning for a school (details supplied) in the event that the new school building is not completed in September 2018; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [28247/18]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the witnesses for coming today and for all the work they do as parents and practitioners. For me, one of the most difficult experiences of being a Deputy is meeting the parents of children who have special needs and who are waiting for assessment or access to special education supports, wheelchairs, occupational therapists, speech and language therapists and counselling. I cannot...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: With the Chair's permission, I ask Ms O'Malley to go back and walk us through that again. For those listening, there are many three-letter acronyms, six months and two and a half years, and all sorts of things. Where a parent has a concern and states that he or she wants his or her child assessed, does the parent typically go to his or her GP?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: This is a primary care clinician. If the GP or the community nurse agrees that there is a need to have this young boy or girl assessed, is Ms O'Malley saying that in the south east the child will wait two and a half years for the initial assessment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: If that assessment flagged something and showed this young boy or girl may need occupational therapy, psychological support or whatever, is Ms O'Malley saying then there is a second round of assessment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: From the time the parent brings his or her child to the GP and the GP agrees to have the child assessed, in the south east it will take two and a half years for the child to be assessed. If one is bringing in a two and a half year old boy or girl, the child will be five by the time he or she is assessed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Will Ms O'Malley tell the committee, where the assessment team states a child needs supports, how long it takes to get them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: A two and a half year old kid who is brought into a GP will see the intervention at six years of age.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Will Ms O'Malley give the committee a sense of the missed opportunity for that child, the difference that three and a half years would make to the rest of his or her life having waited until six years of age, as opposed to having the intervention within a few months? What difference does it make to the child's life?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: It is fair to say that for the occupational therapists, the psychologists and the parents, the wait from two and a half to six years of age has a profound and long-term effect on the child's quality of life in moving into adulthood and his or her family. Is it fair to say the wait of three and a half years is very damaging for the future of the child and his or her family?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: How long ago was this?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: Not that long ago.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I am happy to wait if the Chairman wishes to go to the witnesses next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the witnesses for attending. Will they lay out the proposed new process and address the issue of the time it is taking? I have no doubt that they are trying to do the best for children with special needs but, during the previous session, we heard from the professional bodies and parents that they were not consulted and that the standard operating procedure of the 90-minute...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: I asked Dr. Morgan specifically about this. This goes to the core of the issue relating to the amount of time before intervention occurs.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: New Standard Operating Procedure for Assessment of Need under the Disability Act 2005: Discussion (27 Jun 2018)

Stephen Donnelly: What Ms O'Neill has just laid out is a seven-month period.