Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Select Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
When parents bring their children to a doctor and the children are referred, whether to CAMHS, the dentist or primary care, they expect a pathway. That is why we are putting in place the no-wrong-door approach. Three pilots are under way at the moment, in north County Dublin, Galway and we will open one in Donegal as well. However, Mr. Gloster has been clear to all six regional executive officers that he wants to see the no-wrong-door approach rolled out completely so that when a referral comes in from a GP, it will be clinically triaged and then it will be determined where that child would best be placed. It might be in a family resource centre or in Jigsaw, for example. We will expand Jigsaw in next year's budget. It might be, for example, CAMHS, NEPS or primary care. We have too many children on multiple waiting lists and they are languishing on them. I accept that. However, I have to say-----
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