Dr. Niall Muldoon:

One can see from the recent interim report of the Mental Health Commission that there is a sense that many CAMHS will find excuses not to bring people in. Some 38% of referrals were accepted in one areas and 82% were accepted in another area. If one has autism, that is an easy out for some people who do not want to accept referrals. We have to sort that out. I have always pushed to go upstream into schools to make therapeutic early interventions there. Whether one calls it a diagnosis or just an understanding of the needs, we need to do more of that. That will be the way forward. I ask my colleague to touch on improving the voice in that area.