Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 26 January 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Family-Centred Practice and Parent Training Interventions: Discussion

Ms Angela O'Neill:

Yes. It also then creates a difficulty where we end up prioritising children based on a court order. I have a fundamental problem with that. We do not have a choice but it means that the child for whom, in my view, it might be more clinically appropriate to be assessed, is moved down the list because the child with the court order has to be seen. As Mr. O'Regan said, the family does not care about that; it is their child who they are fighting for. We are trying to take the helicopter view and ensure we are providing the greatest good and the least harm for all the children for whom we have to deliver a service. I will hand over to Professor MacLachlan to speak about clinical guidance.

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