Emer Currie (Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I would like to see the progress the Minister of State is seeing. I do not know how I will get to see that by tabling a parliamentary question to the Minister every month. I need to see it so that I can tell the parents who are in contact with me. The communications they are receiving indicate it will be three years. They are not getting the communication they used to have and need and want. The Minister of State spoke of targets of eight months and six months and I will hold her to those.

I will ask her again about the panel of recruitment. How does that fit into what is happening? What is happening as regards the therapists who were to be brought back into special schools? I have heard there has been an intervention by Fórsa in that regard and we are not seeing those therapists back in the schools. Will the Minister of State comment on that? Is recruitment for those specific roles necessary? Is that the approach that will be taken or will these therapists come from the CDNTs?