Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS

Ms Hannah N? Ghiolla Mhairt?n:

We raised it within our meeting. We specifically raised the new language which emerged around a primary diagnosis of autism and the fact the children were excluded from the pilot CAMHS hubs.

They took it away to consider and we have not heard back from that. We have since submitted parliamentary questions through TDs asking about discrimination against autistic children. They do not acknowledge any discrimination. We are trying to highlight today it is an issue and there is a patten across the country. We have members in every county, so it is not isolated to one or two counties.

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