Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE
John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source
I know, but the HSE is initially only targeting those with ADHD. That is not what happened in Kerry, where there was an examination of a random sample of files. They were not just ADHD files. I am concerned that the HSE will look at just the ADHD files and, if it makes findings that are negative - I hope they will be positive rather than negative - it will only pursue the ADHD avenue. I am thinking of all the other presenting cases, which would start getting lost as we moved down just this one avenue. To the public's mind, it would not be unusual for medication to be prescribed. I take it that the prescribing in question was inappropriate, but in Kerry the review did not focus on ADHD alone. There was a full examination of random samples. That is what gave rise to the Maskey report and the discovery that there allegedly was inappropriate prescribing across a range of presenting issues.
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