Doherty calls for action on Community Care waiting lists

A Donegal TD has made a plea for community care therapy waiting lists to be published.

Deputy Pearse Doherty highlighted the longest waiting list for a child seeking speech therapy in Donegal is 44 weeks.

Nationally, HSE figures show more than six thousand children were waiting to begin speech and language therapy at the end of August.

Deputy Doherty says that despite large number being removed from waiting lists that does not mean that care has been given:

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