Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is an interesting topic to tease out. Why do we have such long waiting lists for CAMHS? What we hear from schools it that when children are referred to services, there is a waiting list for them to be seen and the requirement for those children to be seen regularly and consistently is not met. Will the professor respond to the point around how long children have to wait? They also receive no feedback. If there is a multidisciplinary team in place and a child attends for a meeting, no feedback is provided to the schools so there is no loop. Those children and their families do not appear to be at the centre of the process.