I want to bring the Tánaiste's attention to the lack of services in Dublin Mid-West. I have a constituent from Clondalkin who needs a mobility scooter. He has been told that he must wait 37 months for an occupational therapist appointment in Rowlagh. In Newcastle, we have no public health nurses for one housing estate, but we have for the housing estate beside it. It is the same in north Clondalkin. Finally, we have no special educational needs officer for Clondalkin. I have families who are desperately trying to get a special educational school place for their child with little or no assistance. I have three questions. Does the Tánaiste think it is unacceptable for a person needing a mobility scooter to have to wait three and a half years for an appointment? Does he think it is unacceptable that children are not receiving developmental checks? Does he think it is unacceptable for parents of children with disabilities to have no support in finding a school place?

Children should have support in respect of finding school places. I am not clear as to why there is no special educational needs organiser, SENO, in the area. Is that a recruitment issue?

It is a recruitment issue.

That is a matter for the National Council for Special Education, NCSE. There are SENOs across the length and breadth of the country.

There are none in Clondalkin.

However, I presume there will be.

I beg your pardon.

Is that a-----

I do not know. We would have to ask the Minister, Deputy Donnelly.

The time is running out for the answer.

There are none at all-----

If we ring, the NCSE will tell us what the story is. I presume there will be. Maybe someone has left the job or whatever. I am not sure; we will need to get the background to that.

On the mobility scooter, my own view is that it is an appliance and any supports should be provided relatively seamlessly. The system the HSE operates at times in different parts of the country baffles me. Extraordinary additional funding has been allocated to the HSE over the past three years and mobile scooters should not be an issue financially.

He has been waiting 37 months for the service.

Nobody should be waiting 37 months. That is ridiculous.

Go raibh maith agat.

The third point was-----

Public health nurses.

Again, there has been very substantial recruitment with 28,000 extra people recruited in the last three years.