Dr. Niall Muldoon:

It is telling that when Dr. John Hillery highlighted the reason he was resigning from the Health Service Executive, HSE, position yesterday, he considered his medical ethics compromised and gave the example of having no respite for somebody with an intellectual disability and behavioural issues and therefore having to medicate them to keep them more relaxed and keep them down. That is where the system subtlety impacts enormously on people and if that is happening in the case of a child, we have got a serious problem. Again, it is forcing professionals into doing things they do not want to be doing.