I raise the matter of the Errigal Truagh Special Needs services at Emyvale, County Monaghan. It has a project, with state-of-the-art plans, which has planning permission to develop and deliver much-needed day and weekend respite services for children aged between six and 17 to provide essential support for children who are currently under the CDNT for County Monaghan. I do not need to tell the Taoiseach that the gap is huge. The need is incredible. This group is ready to go. As I said, the project is shovel-ready. I met with them yesterday. They are very despondent. Will the Taoiseach raise this matter with Bernard O'Regan to see why there is such a slow pace on this project on the HSE side?

I thank the Deputy for raising this important issue following her meeting with the group at Emyvale. I know the importance of this. She is right to say that there is a lot of unmet need, when it comes to day and weekend respite for children. We are all working to come up with innovative solutions. The one the Deputy outlined sounds like a very innovative solution. I had the honour of opening one such service recently in another part of the country. To see the impact these interventions can make is very compelling. We are very eager to do more. We provided significantly increased funding for the health services to do more. I will directly raise the issue with the HSE, as the Deputy requested.