Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE

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

I am sorry to cut across Mr. Fitzgerald. I know that we cannot speak about individual cases which was why my question was as general as possible. In a number of cases, parents and children feel that they were left out of the review process and that their personal testimonies were not taken on board. Are there any plans to go back and rectify this so that the voices of these children and their parents can be heard? To get a letter like the one the family received, having been through so much heartbreak and trauma while trying to get the best possible care for their daughter, was not acceptable. When they met the locum psychiatrist, Dr. Sharma, he immediately said that the child was on the wrong medication and changed it but still this child is not one of the 227 deemed to have been at risk of harm. Will there be retrospective consideration of these files?

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