Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I believe that both should be running in tandem with one another in complementary therapy. Dr. Brides mentioned that 8,500 children are waiting for primary care psychology and over 4,000 of them are waiting for over a year. That is the deficit in services we have. If these services were running properly and in parallel with one another, there might not be the need for children to be on medication for as long as they are. That is one of the issues I have heard from talking to parents of children in CAMHS.