Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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The reason I mention young adults is many of them who have been in touch or whose parents have been in touch with my office were children who availed of eating disorder services. They find that the there is no comparison between services for adolescents and services for young adults. Linn Dara is on my doorstep and, therefore, I am aware of the services it provides. It has its problems relating to its geographic location. Not everybody who enters Linn Dara will get the service when they go back to Dundalk, for example. A lot of people do recover. That is the other side of it. I do not want to say that people do not recover but some people do not and when they become young adults, they find that there is a lack of services and the inpatient services they are able to avail of are not the same. These young adults and their parents feel very frightened in that space, which is why I raised the issue.