Tommy Broughan (Dublin Bay North, Independent) | Oireachtas source

Children can suffer mental health difficulties because of the unsettling and distressful nature of being in emergency homeless accommodation. We recently received the National Women's Council of Ireland report, Out of Silence, which referred to the high rate of suicide among girls in this country compared to the rates in other EU member states. Will mental health supports be made available to complement the services family resource centres can provide? Given the waiting lists in child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, and for mental health services generally, is the Minister liaising with community centres in areas in which the homeless figures are high and which have not yet been designated as family resource centres to also involve them? Again, my constituency and that of the Minister are probably exemplars of areas where such supports are necessary.

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