Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 13 June 2023

Joint Committee On Health

Services and Supports for People with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: Discussion

Mr. Hugh Doogan:

I made a point earlier on, and I do not think Deputy Ó Murchú was in the room at the time, but I will quickly make it again. We are currently rolling the programme out in Louth and Meath with the funding we have received from the HSE. We put a proposal to the HSE to expand that current roll-out to the rest of the counties in CHO 8. That six-county roll-out comes in at under €500,000 per annum. This is scalable. We are not talking big money here, and it is a model that can be delivered very quickly. We are not looking for the clinical professionals that I know there is a shortage of. These are psychosocial professionals who we can train up very quickly and deliver at scale.

I would like to echo once more the words of the parent that is in our parent testimonial: every community in Ireland should have this.