Jim O'Keeffe
Ceist:301 Mr. J. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Health and Children if his attention has been drawn to the difficulties in relation to speech therapy in west Cork, where there are three speech therapists, one of whom is on maternity leave while a second is on leave of absence, leaving one speech therapist to cover the entire area; and if he has proposals to deal with the situation which is causing tremendous difficulty for a large number of children in need of speech therapy. [10767/03]