Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 13 October 2021
Joint Committee On Health
Impact of Covid-19 on Addiction Services: Discussion
Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I have a brief question about access to services. We have heard with regard to other aspects of mental health that there is difficulty in getting access to services. This is probably a two-part question. Is it easier to access the witnesses' services than mental health services or child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS or are they having capacity issues whereby they would wish to provide more? With regard to the marginalised people in society such as people with disabilities or members of the Traveller community, do they use the witnesses' services or is there a gap there because of information or access? I am trying to get the picture because we want to find out what additional resources should be provided because people are, perhaps, being left behind.
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