Question from Deputy Pádraig O'Sullivan - PQ 38079-26

To ask the Minister for Children; Disability and Equality if she will confirm whether the Service Improvement Function of the National Children's Disability Services Team, which was responsible for working directly with individual Children's Disability Network Teams to drive service improvements, has been stepped down and its funding withdrawn; if so, when this decision was made, the assessment carried out of the likely impact on the delivery of the Roadmap for Service Improvement 2023–2026; the alternative arrangements in place to drive service improvement across CDNTs nationally in the absence of this function; and if she will make a statement on the matter.