Mental Health Services
Dail Éireann — 2022-05-24
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Mark Ward (SF), Dublin Mid-West

I will give the Minister of State some figures. More than 8,000 children are waiting on appointments for primary care psychology, 3,000 of whom have been waiting for more than a year. More than 4,000 children are waiting for CAMHS appointments, of whom more than 400 have been waiting more than a year. If these children get the service they need at an early age, they are less likely to need the more acute services that are provided by such services as Linn Dara when they get older. Does the Minister of State agree that early intervention is key? How will the Government address these failings in the children's mental health service?
These are children; they are not statistics. Behind each one of these children, there are hopes, dreams and ambitions and they are being stalled at present.

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Sitting date: 2022-05-24