The report of the Task Force on Autism, which was published in October 2001, was highly critical and made more than 150 recommendations. These included:
In a recent Dáil reply, Minister for Education and Science Mary Hanafin claimed her department has acted on many of the main recommendations of the report. But it had prioritised the implementation of the core legislative and structural measures.
According to Hanafin, key developments include:
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