Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent)
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501. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the responsibilities of Tusla in supporting families with children that have been diagnosed with autism and are having difficulty in accessing appropriate education places for them; the number of these families that Tusla has been working with in each of the years 2016 to 2018 and to date in 2019, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17470/19]

Katherine Zappone (Dublin South West, Independent)
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The responsibility for the provision of school places for children with autism lies with the Department of Education in conjunction with the National Council for Special Education. Tusla can provide support to parents who have been unable to find school places but have no role in the provision of specialist school places for children with a diagnosis of autism.