Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The children's disability network team, CDNT, in my home town of New Ross, County Wexford, is like most other CDNTs in the country and is simply not fit for purpose. Currently, 258 children are assigned to the CDNT in New Ross, all of whom require some level of therapeutic input. Many of them are waiting for more than one intervention. The CDNT in New Ross has no senior social worker, no speech and language therapist, no dietician, no clinical nurse manager, no manager, and I could go on. This is now a repetitive plight that so many others in this House have brought to the floor day in and day out, following responses from and representations made to the HSE. However, the list continues to get longer. Children are gravely regressing and their families are simply lost and disillusioned by a health service that is causing grave harm instead of any healing. My simple question is: when is it going to change for the children and families of New Ross, Wexford, Enniscorthy, Gorey and every other part of this country?

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