Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 17 January 2024

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS

Ms Hannah N? Ghiolla Mhairt?n:

I believe the Deputy's suggestion around the National Treatment Purchase Fund is one that we definitely did not bring up and it sounds very interesting, especially for our members who are looking for the specialist CAMHS intellectual disabilities, ID, service for their children with intellectual disabilities who do not have access to anything. They have asked whether some funding could be provided so they could cross the Border. If they cannot get the expertise in Ireland, could funding be provided where they could to go to Northern Ireland, or to wherever the expertise is, so that something is offered to them because their children are left with nothing at the moment?