Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I have just read the terms of the NTPF. Largely, when we see someone availing of it, it is an adult and they are going off to get positive treatment. I did not see any exclusion clauses which say that young people should not also be going there. I just thought that in the whole realm of cognitive supports, and diagnostics, and perhaps less in the case of therapeutics, I cannot see anything that rules that out and yet it is not practised at the moment. Of course, there would be a major budgetary strain on that but if it dealt with those incredible backlogs we are seeing, I think it deserves some consideration.