Legislative Council

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Child Development Service—Speech pathologists—Wait times

175. Hon Donna Faragher to the parliamentary secretary representing the Minister for Health:

I refer to the metropolitan child development service.

What is the current median wait time to access a speech pathologist through this service for children in the primary years of schooling?

Hon Pierre Yang replied:

Once again, I thank the honourable member for some notice of this question. The following answer has been provided by the Minister for Health.

As of 31 March 2025, it was 9.3 months.