Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I know the Minister of State is prioritising this issue. In the context of her budget for next year, she is developing proposals for how we can reimburse parents who have no other option but to go privately. However, we need to get that right. We need to make sure there is adequate capacity in the private sector. We do not really have a clear read on that at the moment. There is some capacity but we do not know quite how much. We would have to make sure that any therapists were properly registered and supervised. It is something the Minister of State is pursuing at the moment and we hope we will have something in the service plan for next year.

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