Stephen Donnelly (Wicklow, Fianna Fail)
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What we heard earlier, if I am comparing like with like - and specifically we were given an example of a CHO south area - is that in some areas not only is time involved not seven months, it is three and a half years. In Wicklow, which comes under another CHO area, the time involved is not seven months or anything close to it. I have had to intervene on numerous occasions to find psychologists for young children with suicidal ideation. Even to a non-clinical person, these children were clearly in need of help. If Ms O'Neill agrees that the period involved in the southern area is not seven month but three and a half years, will she indicate what is the time involved is the nine CHOs throughout the country? I am not for a moment suggesting that she was trying to mislead the committee. There is a vast difference-----