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

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 the parcel’ on disability services.

91 CDNTs are aligned to 96 Community Healthcare Networks (CHNs) across the country and are providing services and s for children aged from birth to 18 years of age.

The organisation's chairman said that the transition to progressing disability services is 'particularly difficult for families'.