Ms Olivia Flanagan:

For any new parents coming into the system now, their experience is totally different from that of the parents here. My son Josh will be seven on Friday. Like Ms O’Donovan, we had a good start but in the past three and a half to four years, we have had nothing. I really feel sorry for any parent with a newborn baby, or even a one-year-old or two-year-old child. They have had no services and the future looks very bleak. Our children are suffering.