{"id":5482,"date":"2025-11-11T09:39:47","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/?p=5482"},"modified":"2025-11-11T09:39:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T09:39:47","slug":"five-year-waiting-list-for-childrens-disability-services-in-tallaght-utterly-unacceptable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/five-year-waiting-list-for-childrens-disability-services-in-tallaght-utterly-unacceptable\/","title":{"rendered":"Five year waiting list for children\u2019s disability services in Tallaght \u2018utterly unacceptable\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that it is shocking and utterly unacceptable that the waiting list to access services in the Children\u2019s Disability Network Team in Chamber House, Tallaght is now 56 and a half months, almost five years. <br \/><br \/>As of the start of November, there are 1,046 children on the waiting list for Chamber House, 904 of them have been waiting more than a year. <br \/><br \/>Teachta Crowe said:<br \/><br \/>\u201cThe waiting list to access services in the Children\u2019s Disability Network Team in Chamber House, Tallaght is now 56 and a half months, almost five years. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThere are over a thousand children waiting for services and 904 of them have been waiting for longer than a year. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThis is shocking and utterly unacceptable. We are talking about access to Speech and language therapy, Occupational therapy, physiotherapy and a range of other therapies that would give children who need them a greater ability to access education and socialise with their peers. <br \/><br \/>\u201cWe are forcing parents to consider extremely expensive private services, if they can even find space there because of the pressure that the almost entirely nonfunctional public system is placing on alternatives. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThese children have been abandoned by a Fine Gael and Fianna F\u00e1il government that make a mess of everything they touch. No school places for children with special education needs, no school bus to get those that have a place to school in the morning. There are even thousands more children waiting to access an Assessment of Needs to get onto that five year waiting list in Chamber House. <br \/><br \/>\u201cThis government has allowed children\u2019s disability services to collapse and they have absolutely no plan to fix them. While they do nothing, it is children who suffer the consequences.\u201d <br \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sinn F\u00e9in TD for Dublin South West Se\u00e1n Crowe has said that it is shocking and utterly unacceptable that the waiting list to access services in the Children\u2019s Disability Network Team in Chamber House, Tallaght is now 56 and a half months, almost five years. As of the start of November, there are 1,046 children [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5483,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5482\/revisions\/5483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/seancrowe.ie\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}