I will get a more detailed response from the HSE on the matter.

I have long enough experience in health to know that different consultants can produce different perspectives.

The Deputy asked a question; I am trying to make a point in reply. As he will be aware, other consultants were arguing very strongly for actions in respect of Navan and they argued differently from the consultants to whom the Deputy has spoken. That is fair enough. That is the way the world works. There is no one uniform view in respect to the configuration of services from the medical community in Navan or the north east. I have said before that we need to learn lessons from previous configurations. The centralisa…

-----treatments in Navan and other locations across the north east.

Core funding is worth up to €221 million to the sector. Obviously there are implications in terms of affordability and so forth. Last year, we allocated very substantial funds specifically for staffing, training and to create career pathways within the early childhood sector. In work under way within the Government legislation committee, GLC, this year the Government has signalled that it wants to deal more substantially with the affordability issue and the cost-of-living issue, and also ensuring that while doing t…

I am aware of the organisation. It is a wonderful service. We have the Irish Guide Dogs for the Blind as well, which does wonderful work. That is a long-established centre. I certainly will talk to the HSE regarding the requirements of ChildVision and, in particular, the children they look after.

To be fair, on any balanced, objective assessment there has been very substantial investment in special needs education in this country over the past 20 years. In particular mainstreaming special needs education started in the late 1990s through the provision of a pupil-teacher ratio for children with autism. That started in 1998. SNA provision was implemented and now has many thousands of workers. This year there was an increase of 10% over last year. The legislative template as enshrined in the EPSEN Act was not …

I thank the Deputy for raising the issue. He will be aware of my view that the proposals that emerged in terms of amnesties or qualified amnesties are unacceptable. The Deputy is correct in saying that the views of victims and the families of victims should be uppermost and paramount in any legacy policy or scheme. I do not want to get involved in what is happening in the UK in regard to an election of a successor to Prime Minister Boris Johnson. Suffice to say that we would like this to be an opportunity for a res…

I stand by the comments that I made yesterday. I met with Jigsaw at the weekend, actually, and had a very good discussion with young people who have used the Jigsaw service and are advocates for it. Of course, there is significant room for continued improvement and enhancement of services. Particularly post-Covid, there has been an increase in anxiety levels and mental well-being issues. That is definitely the case, particularly among young people. That has created additional pressures, not only on CAMHS but also o…

I will say this. The Minister of State with responsibility for mental health, Deputy Butler, is working flat out on all of these issues and her diligence cannot be called into question.

There is a need for a comprehensive review of the needs of the Traveller community. I met recently with members of the Traveller Visibility Group who had particular concerns around a growing crisis in mental health among young Travellers in particular. Across all policies, be it housing, criminal justice, health or education, I believe we need a comprehensive review and to listen and engage more with Traveller representative organisations. Without question, that applies to the issue the Deputy has raised and I know…

I dealt with that in response to Deputy Michael Healy-Rae. Notwithstanding the huge input costs, this year will be a good year for dairy farming, not horrendous, devastating or catastrophic.

There are concerns.

Notwithstanding that, and the Minister has taken steps, we need balance in the debate. That is what I am saying. I understand fully the concerns farmers have in respect of emissions ceilings.

I fully respect those concerns but we are also providing over €1.5 billion in environmental funding to the farming community and we are willing to work with it. Farmers here are efficient compared to other farming systems across the world.

We do not yet have agreement or finalisation on the various sectoral emissions across the economy. It is not only one sector but a whole range of sectors on which we must get finalisation of the figures.

I will engage with the Minister for Social Protection, Deputy Humphreys, in relation to that and revert to the Deputy. He raised a reasonable point.

As usual, the Deputy's feet are on the ground and she is engaged with the communities across her county. She raised a fair point in terms of cost-of-living issues for service providers, such as BEAM Services and the Cairdeas and Delta centres. In the context of a cost-of-living approach by the Government, we will examine what we can do for the sector. We are aware of the issue of pay disparity. There was a resolution of that some years back, or at least a partial resolution. Some of the bigger organisations like SI…

Resources are being and will be allocated to this area. We have had recent meetings with relevant Ministers with responsibility for disability, health and education in my Department, and with the HSE. There are a number of aspects to this. Resources are being allocated and the recruitment of therapists is important, but also models of how the system works and models of operation. It is not just all about resources and we have to examine the manner in which the service is provided.

In response to Deputy Ryan, I did not get the name of the service.