Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 25 September 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs

Youth Mental Health: Discussion

Mr. Jim Ryan:

It is a fair reading but, unfortunately, it does not do justice to the people working there, especially in Galway, as the Deputy will know. That is why I have a difficulty with the veracity of the figures and have challenged them in recent days. I will need to revert to the committee on the matter.

I need to come back to everybody on that because it might be a little bit about how people have defined what an emergency is. For example, a person might be referred in an emergency but when he or she is assessed by the team, his or her case might not be regarded as an emergency. Something else might be going on.

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