Ruairi Ó Murchú (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

Obviously we dealt with some of that before the sound echo issues started. Dr. Higgins has given the answer in relation to the PTA in particular and the fact that the assessment procedure is not straightforward. The same sort of assessment procedure, no more than the same sort of therapy procedure, will not work for every individual case. What is the best case assessment scheme, for want of a better term? How do we deliver therapies at this point and what are the best means of doing that, while taking into account the fact that even if we have the workforce planning piece and all the pieces as regards conditions in place over the next four or five years, we are talking about a period of time where we will not be able to fill all those positions?

I will talk about the difficulties families have come to me to speak about, such as silo issues. They cannot access solutions for particular problems because they are told it relates to CAMHS or whoever. We all know of the issues on everything from primary care to disability services and mental health services.