The return to school fuelled anxiety for some households this week. However, for the families of those with disabilities, many are still awaiting the return of day services.
While they are slowly opening up, its a far more reduced service. On average, a person who spent five days a week in day services is now spending two days a week in that service.
Michael Comerford is 18 and lives in Co Kilkenny with his mother Linda, his sister and two brothers. He finished his special school this year, but before that happened, a bus funded by the Department of Education stopped at his door daily and brought him to school in Carlow, 45 minutes away, collecting others on the way.