Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I want to address one particular course that has been cancelled this year. The Minister might have notes on it. It is in Question No. 107. I will give the Minister a heads-up on that in case he has it there. The specialist master's degree on children's mental health in Trinity College Dublin has been cancelled this year. This master's degree in children's mental health provided at Trinity is open to people from a range of different backgrounds, including professions that work with children, adolescents and families with mental health issues. It also includes medicine, education, speech and language therapy, psychology and nursing. It is a gateway course into child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS. We have heard reports from CAMHS all summer about how children accessing care in CAMHS are really suffering. This is a time when we need to increase specialist courses. This course has now been cancelled. If this course was around, it would really help to build the vital multidisciplinary teams. What is the Minister doing to reinstate this course? What conversations has he had with the Minister for Health on this?

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