Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 6 December 2023

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth

Access to CAMHS for Individuals with Dual Diagnosis: Discussion

Mr. Bernard Gloster:

What we did very recently was advertise to the entire country and to any organisation involved in providing supports to children and families that if they felt they had a credible offering to families of children with a disability, they could list with us and we will fund them to provide the service to children who are waiting for the fuller range of our disability service. In that way, families are at least getting some support while they wait for the full service. That could be equine, music or play therapy, but these are ways of supporting children while they are in that very protracted waiting period.