Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 25 January 2022

Joint Committee On Health

General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children

Dr. Niall Muldoon:

The Deputy is correct. If we do not close this gap now, we will have serious problems in the future. The worst-case scenario is that the same child going through those two systems would have different outcomes. That is the wrong way forward.