Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion

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

The report does not mention 94%. It states that 92.7% of all urgent cases are being seen within three days. When the Mental Health Commission was before the committee, I asked how the cases were responded to. Its representatives could not tell me if it was through an appointment, a letter or a phone call to parents to say someone had an appointment. That could have been recorded as a case being seen to within three days. Is there any difference between the figure in the Mental Health Commission's report and the 94% figure referred to by the witnesses today?

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