Ms Anne O'Connor:

Absolutely. We want to take a targeted approach to those young people while working with Tusla. We are hopeful that this will make a difference. We are also working with the justice system.

A number of initiatives are under way as part of the improvement project, including to address the Senator's points about on-call liaisons for CAMHS so that, when a young person presents at an emergency department, he or she can be assessed by a child and adolescent psychiatrist. These initiatives are in train and I hope that the response the committee received set some of them out for it.