Ms Vanessa Murphy:

I would add the HSE needs to be held accountable for all of what is happening here because the children are being failed across the board. As Ms Linda Comerford said, the majority of our group would have young children but dealing with their needs will be pushed down the road. In my circumstances, I ask myself if we cannot change things now what will it be like for my six year old when he becomes an adult. Whatever the cost to the State is now, the cost with be trebled with residential placement. Where are these children to go? If they are not getting early interventions and the help they need now, where will they be in ten years time when they become adults? There are not residential places for all these children who have been left behind and that is where many of these children are headed if they do not get the help they need now.