Letters to the Editor: No sticking plaster for the waiting wounded

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The most recent reflex response to the perennial, nay eternal, Assessment of Need (AON) quagmire misses, as usual, the key contributors to the stagnance pertaining.

Minister Ann Rabitte’s proposal that families should be reimbursed for specific private psychological assessment seems on the simplistic surface of it to be a decent response to the quandary, but it absolutely skims over the prevailing corrupted situation, avoiding the core elements which build and sustain the monstrous waiting lists ad infinitum. So much so that waiting-list ‘membership’ becomes some sort of ‘achievement’. It’s a sticking plaster approach to a gaping wound of service logic, protocol, and delivery. But sure what’s new?