Baineann mo cheist le heaspa seirbhísí faoisimh ar an talamh i nGaillimh agus fulaingt na gcúramóirí dá bharr. I am delighted the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, is here. Perhaps "delighted" is not the right word. I am once again obliged to raise the absence of respite services in Galway. I hope I do not get an answer about the hundreds of thousands of hours being provided. I acknowledge that, but what is happening here in Galway might be different from the rest of the country. A message from one person says that like many people in the west, they are exhausted after struggling for 18 months, day and night, without a break. People are not complaining. They are simply asking for the right to respite services, which have been done away with, with Covid being used as an excuse. Will the Minister of State address that issue and take a hands-on approach? I realise she has been rebuffed on many occasions when she has taken a hands-on approach.

There is no doubt there was a vacuum in disability services. We are reinstating respite services for adults and children. The question is really about respite for older people. I do not have an answer for the Deputy. I will ask the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, to provide an answer later. I spoke to her last night about home care support in Galway and how many were on a waiting list for home care support. She told me 51 people are awaiting home care support. I will address the respite issue with the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, later.

I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, for her ongoing engagement with me on the state of autism assessment and delivery of services in my area, in community healthcare organisation, CHO, 6, which I identify as a problematic area. I give the example of a young boy, Dillon McGee, who has very complex needs. His parents asked me to raise his case. There is inconsistency of services. He does not have access to child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, because of where he lives. His mother has been told to turn up at Crumlin to get medication when his behaviour gets out of control. There is inconsistency with respite services. Children in Churchtown can get services in Greystones, but he cannot get services in Blackrock while being in Blackrock. He cannot get the bus from Leopardstown to Twigs because it will not go that little bit further, but a child from Swords is getting it. I am raising the complete inconsistency between CHO areas and what is being delivered. It is not being delivered in the way it needs to be in CHO 6, so the Minister of State and I keep having this engagement and she keeps raising this with the HSE. I beseech the Minister of State to help me to deal with the inconsistency in my own area to get the services.

I saw the correspondence again this week and I am assured a meeting will be set up with Deputies Carroll MacNeill and Devlin, the family and the HSE to resolve this. We need consistency and a standard operating procedure for all, regardless of where in the country they live. We need access to universal care, which is the same in Galway as it would be in the Deputy's area. That will be addressed.