Verona Murphy (Wexford, Independent) | Oireachtas source

There is a specific issue involving a mother of three children. They are all autistic, one severely so. He is only 11. She is the mother of 15-year-old twins but the 11-year-old is essentially ruling the roost. This mother is a lone parent. She needs co-ordination of all the services but there is nothing. She does not have anybody. She should have a co-ordination officer. She is dealing with three children. She has CDNT, child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, Tusla and doctors, but she is engaging with none of them because she does not have the energy or mental capacity because her 11-year-old has great need of services and she is not getting them. The CDNT is not able to provide them. There is complete failure in the system. My concerns are not about money because their concerns are not about money, but about staff to provide the services. It does not hold that there is no concern about money because if we were paying enough, we would have the staff. It may not be quite as simple as that but it should be.

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