Patrick Costello (Dublin South Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

It is important to remember that Linn Dara deals with the most distressed and the most complex cases of children and young people seeking help. The Deputies speaking tonight are from Dublin South-Central and Dublin South-West but the reality is that Linn Dara serves Kildare, Westmeath, Laois, Offaly, Longford and Louth. As Deputy Collins said, this is a national service and we should really have Deputies from each of those constituencies trying to raise this, although I am not sure how we would divide the four minutes.

The reality is this essential service is closing to very little noise apart from what we are saying in here. That is disturbing because our mental health services are under great threat. Our CAMHS services are quite simply not up to scratch and are not fit for purpose.

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