Disabilities minister tells HSE to prioritise therapies for children over paperwork

Some 34,000 children are on community health waiting lists

Nicole Rooney, 5, at the launch by minister Anne Rabbitte of the new adult day service in The Deaf Village in Cabra, Dublin. Picture: Iain White

Disabilities minister Anne Rabbitte has ordered the HSE to immediately halt time-consuming paperwork over concerns that this is preventing children with disabilities from receiving the therapy they need.

It comes after the Irish Examiner reported that parents of children with disabilities are being told to attend training courses so they can carry out therapies on their own children who remain on long waiting lists.