Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 6 July 2017
Seanad Public Consultation Committee
Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion
10:00 am
Mr. Jim Gibson:
The Chairman cannot really put the clampers on me. The first thing I want to say is we were invited here today to represent a State agency and to speak about mental health issues. I am quite happy to meet any representative about the current out-of-hours service in Ireland from the Child and Family Agency. I do not want to get into the Dr. Shannon thing at all. I am here to speak about mental health, which is the real issue. If a child or young person presents to An Garda Síochána out of hours and Tusla out-of-hours services are involved, we respond. Ms Finlay, service director, can outline what happens. I hope that will go some way to answering the question.
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