In December, I submitted a question on the lack of development assessments for newborn babies at three and ten months of age at the Old County Road Health Centre. The reply I received explained there was a deficit of public health nurses and that a plan was in place to see children on the waiting list in January 2023. I put the question again in the Dáil at the end of January, after receiving emails from constituents saying there was still a delay. The reply was that a plan had been put in place by services in Crumlin. I received an email from a young first-time mother on Friday. She wrote that she rang to get her child's three-month development check but was told they would not be seen at that time. She asked whether they would be seen at six months but the centre said that was not likely. She was advised to go to their local GP to get the development check. This is not on. The services at Crumlin and Drimnagh, where public health nurses are being moved from one healthcare centre to another on Armagh Road, are leaving children vulnerable. They are being failed by the public health service.

I thank the Deputy. It is certainly a matter of concern to me and to the Government that development checks are not happening in some parts of the country. I believe it is linked to a shortage of public health nurses in some areas, but I will have to ask the Minister, Deputy Stephen Donnelly, to revert to the Deputy with a more detailed reply, if that is okay.

Okay.