-----as they might have in a previous time.

I only have one minute to answer.

What is your problem?

The report will be published. I do not have details of the task force. I have not seen it yet. I have not seen it.

I agree that we need action with respect to the provision of therapy services and assessment of need. A child does not require a diagnosis to access therapy services. The delays in accessing assessments of need are extremely frustrating. In my view, legislation will be required following the court decision some time back, which upended, if one likes, the HSE's approach to assessments of need. Significant funding has been provided for the children's disability network teams. My view is that we need to go back to a s…

-----beginning with our special schools, so that the occupational therapists, speech and language therapists, physiotherapists and psychologists are in the schools with the teachers. That would be a much more consistent and sustainable model than the one which has not worked to date.

First, the question of definitive design has been raised in respect of the national children's hospital. The PwC report goes into considerable detail on errors and mistakes that were made at the time-----

-----in terms of the development of the national children's hospital and so on, and all of that. On the national maternity hospital, the delay was more on the political side in terms of getting that project off the ground.

When you delay, you increase costs. We had a farcical debate in here on that question for far too long.

It is relevant to costs, and the increased costs.

It is ridiculous to suggest that politicians now have to oversee every bill of quantity in respect of every hospital that is going to be built.

That is just ridiculous. Are we really going to get into the operational issues pertaining to the building of a hospital or a school?

We have systems and procedures.

We will change the procedures and the systems.

The idea that I will revise-----

-----the bill of quantities is just farcical. In my humble opinion, the agencies responsible need to do their job. They need to do it properly and effectively.

I apologise.

As I said, on the education side, very significant investment and progress have been made in special education.

That is the first thing. I acknowledge that is not so much the case on the therapies side. I am not happy with that situation.

In terms of what has to happen, first, the CDNT teams and the HSE are endeavouring to recruit, but they are not getting sufficient numbers applying to put the full teams in place. There is a fundamental issue there in terms of recruitment and retention of therapists on the paediatric side and within children's areas more generally. That is a very practical challenge that the HSE has not been able to overcome.