This is a drop from the 12,106 children waiting for their first contact at the end of April.

Documents seen by Breakingnews.ie show there are 15,296 children waiting for AON completion at the end of Q1 for 2025.

Of that figure, 8298 children are waiting over a year for first contact.

It comes as teenage campaigner Cara Darmody began staging a 50-hour protest outside Leinster House on Tuesday morning.

Jaimie has been speaking out about the lack of services and therapies for children with disabilities.

‘I called Charlotte this morning because she was absolutely owed an apology from me,’ he said

The woman told the Taoiseach that carers felt ignored and that the Government had done ‘nothing’ for them.

In October, there was 942 children who were on a waiting list who participated in one or more individual and/or group intervention appointments.

Social Democrats leader Holly Cairns said the Help to Buy scheme was like giving voters ‘a tiny shovel to get out of a massive hole’.

A total of 3,205 assessment reports were completed last year with 2,356 children (74 per cent of all cases) being deemed to have a learning disability.

The Taoiseach and Fine Gael leader said that he was ‘sick and tired of the national pass the parcel’ on disability services.