The lack of services for children with autism should be treated as a national crisis.
That's the view of one parent, who describes two of his sons as 'severely autistic'.
It comes as new figures show more than 110,000 children are on therapy waiting lists.
Mark Darmody has to access private treament as a result of long waiting times:
"It's not being treated like a national crisis. Inequality is literally accepted for children with autism. It is just accepted that a child can be left on a waiting list for three to four years and just left to rot. There is literally no other word for it."
