Several times, I have raised the Government’s failure to adequately provide services for children with special needs in County Monaghan. Many families are in crisis because of the lack of services. In Monaghan, we have no overnight respite care and no special school, we have a shortage in occupational therapy and speech and language therapy, and we have lengthy delays in assessments of needs.

I understand that the Taoiseach will be in County Monaghan tomorrow. I know that a request has been made by families of children with special needs to meet him while he is in the county. Will he give half an hour to meet these families so that he can hear directly of the impact that Government failures are having on their lives?

I will meet them. I will not be able to meet them tomorrow, so I do not want to mislead them, but if the Deputy wants to contact my office, I am happy to arrange to meet them with him and other Oireachtas colleagues from Cavan-Monaghan. I am aware of the issues that the Deputy and other Deputies have raised in the House. Perhaps I will ask the relevant Ministers to attend as well.

We want to make more progress in this regard. We now have a Cabinet committee on disability, which I am chairing. I would be very happy to directly hear from those families that the Deputy wishes me to meet in the coming days.