Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion

Professor Jim Lucey:

Without coherence, everybody steps up and does their best. That is grand, but this is the biggest agenda in our health service, the biggest unmet need in our society and the biggest investment. Incoherence is terribly inefficient and it leads to the kinds of findings Dr. Finnerty has articulated so worryingly with variance in outcomes, poor responses to need and a sense in which we cannot be safe. Dr. Finnerty said she could not assure the parents of Ireland.