Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 24 September 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community

Traveller Mental Health: Discussion

Ms Minnie Connors:

I would like to mention a young man who I took to hospital recently. He was very agitated and threatening to take his life. It took me four hours to get him to the hospital. I had to keep him sitting there waiting for the doctor to come. It was an horrendous day. When we went into a little room to talk to the consultant or whatever he was - he was not human - the very first question he asked the young man was whether he had any criminal court case pending. Why? The young man was a sick person. He was shaking. He had reached such a bad state in his life that he had nowhere else to go, yet this doctor chose to ask that question. That was it, and the young man just stood up and walked out. Maybe the doctors could-----

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