1048. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the current waiting time for therapeutic input in the Wellmount Health Centre is over a year and that the Health Service Executive area manager of Dublin north east estimates that waiting times will grow due to the increasing demands and constraints on the services, and that the waiting times are more than a year for each subsequent block of therapy sessions needed; the measures he will implement to combat the long-term damage for young children arising from his inability to tackle excessively long waiting times for fundamental therapeutic input such as speech and language, if he has discussed the matter with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs; if he has discussed the matter with the Department of Education and Skills as this failure by his Department clearly impacts on the increased need for special needs assistants to assist children as they progress in their education. [34344/13]

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1048. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the current waiting time for therapeutic input in the Wellmount Health Centre is over a year and that the Health Service Executive area manager of Dublin north east estimates that waiting times will grow due to the increasing demands and constraints on the services, and that the waiting times are more than a year for each subsequent block of therapy sessions needed; the measures he will implement to combat the long-term damage for young children arising from his inability to tackle excessively long waiting times for fundamental therapeutic input such as speech and language, if he has discussed the matter with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs; if he has discussed the matter with the Department of Education and Skills as this failure by his Department clearly impacts on the increased need for special needs assistants to assist children as they progress in their education. [34344/13]

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1. 16 July 2013

   Services for People with Disabilities

   1048. Deputy Mary Lou McDonald asked the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the fact that the current waiting time for therapeutic input in the Wellmount Health Centre is over a year and that the Health Service Executive area manager of Dublin north east estimates that waiting times will grow due to the increasing demands and constraints on the services, and that the waiting times are more than a year for each subsequent block of therapy sessions needed; the measures he will implement to combat the long-term damage for young children arising from his inability to tackle excessively long waiting times for fundamental therapeutic input such as speech and language, if he has discussed the matter with the Department of Children and Youth Affairs; if he has discussed the matter with the Department of Education and Skills as this failure by his Department clearly impacts on the increased need for special needs assistants to assist children as they progress in their education. [34344/13]

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