Parents of children with ADHD have criticised the Minister for Health, Mr Martin, for commissioning a study which they say was "a waste of taxpayers' money".
Ms Marian Bridgeman, whose High Court action against the State led to the establishment of the first special ADHD class in any school in the State, said parents had been promised a prevalence study, which would have established the number of children with the disorder in the State.
"This is just a rehash of old studies. It is a waste of taxpayers' money. It is £30,000 down the drain," she said.
Mr Tom Naughton, the chairperson of the mid-west support group, who wrote to the Minister last Friday expressing dissatisfaction with the report, asked for "a serious study into the prevalence of ADHD".
He said his group was making the point for several years that "the lack of awareness and skills among the relevant medical professionals" meant the condition was not diagnosed "because of a lack of interest or simply failure to keep abreast of developments in this field".
The Minister commissioned the department of public health of the Mid-Western Health Board to carry out the study and made £30,000 (€38,092) available for "a prevalence study".
A copy of the report was sent to the mid-west support group in December.
A section of the report on prevalence is taken up mainly with findings on studies from abroad, apart from two paragraphs on small-scale studies done in Ireland. There is no reference to the number of diagnoses in Ireland the number of support groups or any report of contact with these groups.
There are now some 15 such groups in the State.