712. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the previously funded programme under a waiting list initiative, ‘More Than Words’, considered to be an efficient and effective outsourcing of clinical specialist skills, in the context of the disability teams inability to provide timely intervention to children, who in Wicklow are waiting up to five years + for the commencement of their ASD interventions, has been cancelled; if he is aware that the programme cancellation will constitute a failure in duty of care to these children; what measures are in place to replace the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55303/23]

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712. Deputy Jennifer Whitmore asked the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if he is aware that the previously funded programme under a waiting list initiative, ‘More Than Words’, considered to be an efficient and effective outsourcing of clinical specialist skills, in the context of the disability teams inability to provide timely intervention to children, who in Wicklow are waiting up to five years + for the commencement of their ASD interventions, has been cancelled; if he is aware that the programme cancellation will constitute a failure in duty of care to these children; what measures are in place to replace the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55303/23]

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