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

There are a lot of positives here. On some level everyone has stated their points, and the difficulties that people have had, about CAMHS being a particular silo. Sometimes I put that down to the fact that there was no capacity in the services, and people could not deal with what they were dealing with, so on that basis they were happy enough, if they were in a CDNT or primary care, to offload CAMHS knowing that CAMHS would not take them and CAMHS was happy enough to offload people back. Obviously such a situation is unacceptable but it has happened so it is just a case of finding the means to bring that to an end.

Most parents, when dealing with an issue, such as anxiety, want a strategy to deal with the issue as it concerns their child. On some level, parents do not particularly care where an issue is dealt with. Therefore, what is needed is an element of flexibility rather than rigid rules and an attitude of there being no room at the inn. I think we all buy into the idea of no wrong door. Everybody perked up when they heard mention of "a single point of access and triage". That is a pilot scheme but what is it for? Our guests have talked about the autism protocol, the two pilot schemes and how the scheme will become mainstream. Please give some information on that.