Disabilities Assessments
Dail Éireann — 2020-12-10
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Anne Rabbitte (FF), Galway East

Absolutely. I would welcome more involvement of people with experience for the simple reason that I think we all want the one thing: we want the families to get their interventions. We do not want lists upon lists. I look forward to working with the Minister of State, Deputy Madigan, on this. I believe in the network disability teams, coupled with the school inclusion model so we can have just one list so that families know when their children have gone on a list. The reason I need the school inclusion model, and I hope it will work, together with the network disability teams, is that schools operate for 38 weeks per year and that for the other weeks of the year children need to continue with their therapies in order that the network disability teams are able to support them through term time as well.

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Sitting date: 2020-12-10