Mattie McGrath (Tipperary, Independent) | Oireachtas source

The programme for Government specifically mentions mental health provisions. We do not have one mental health bed in the whole county of Tipperary. I know a mother, Louise Kennedy, whose 14 year old daughter, Aoife, is entering her tenth week in a paediatric ward in St. Joseph's hospital in Clonmel, County Tipperary, while awaiting a bed in a mental health facility. I also know another mother, Lorraine O'Brien from Carrickbeg, whose daughter is Layla Keyes, a 13 year old. These people are languishing in hospital wards that are not fit for them because they get no treatment there. This has been dragging on and on. What is the Taoiseach going to do about it?

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