Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion

Dr. John Hillery:

The main thing that needs to be done is to introduce the external monitoring, set standards and make sure they apply across the country and to make sure there is somebody at a local, regional and national levels responsible for that and that there is a spine of responsibility so that wherever one is, whether in west Clare or west Dublin, one has the same access and the same resources. That cannot be done unless one has proper governance. That governance could be brought in fairly quickly, if the resources were put into it and if people were given the power to do so.

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