Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 29 June 2017
Seanad Public Consultation Committee
Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion
10:00 am
Joan Freeman (Independent) | Oireachtas source
My colleague mentioned accident and emergency departments, but we are also looking at the problem of waiting lists. There are 2,500 children on waiting lists, and Ms Keogh said that Zara developed anorexia while on that waiting list.
Ms Paula Dalton mentioned that Rhys waited for CAMHS for 12 months. Did she tell it during that time that he was suicidal? When she eventually brought him to an accident and emergency department, there was a three-week waiting list. Did people at it know how critically suicidal he was?
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