Question from Deputy Mattie McGrath - PQ 57919-25

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality the means by which the funding allocated to an organisation (details supplied) to pay for privately provided assessments of need for children with development issues will be distributed; the means by which a child who is waiting for an assessment can avail of privately funded assessments; the number of children that have availed of assessments under this fund to date; the number of children in Tipperary that have availed of this fund; and if she will make a statement on the matter.