Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I raise the issue of adolescent psychiatric care in County Tipperary. In recent months we have had three adolescents who have spent eight to nine weeks in a paediatric unit in Clonmel waiting for acute psychiatric care to become available in Cork.

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It is intolerable that a teenager, whose parents had her admitted to the hospital system, has to wait such a length of time for specialised psychiatric care. Will the Minister give us an assurance that if a person is admitted to hospital, acute psychiatric care will be provided within a reasonable length of time?

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