It was bewildering, to say the least, to hear a TD making unsubstantiated suggestions about autism in the Dáil but such was the week that was.

During discussions on a motion about special schools, of which the country does not have enough, Kerry TD Danny Healy Rae said “it seems to me that many more are presenting than in my younger days. 

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