Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 December 2023

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

Before we get to the advice, I will address the consultation piece. In the six or seven months I have been in post, I have established a process. I have met Mental Health Reform twice and done two very long engagements with the group where it then goes away and reflects with its member organisations and comes back to me with challenges, questions and issues. I then present it with challenges as to how it can help us as well. Separate from that but cutting across it, just last week I had my second engagement with the Children's Rights Alliance. That is something I started which I have carried on into the health service, because obviously children have lots of health needs. The alliance has given me position papers on responding to children in particular circumstances, such as children in emergency homeless accommodation and so on. The alliance also advocates very strongly around autism, CAMHS and disability services. At an organisational level, therefore, I am very much saying we have to front-face the people we serve and include them in prioritising the issues, but also designing the response. I do not know specifically in the pilot if there is a service.

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