Pauline Tully (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

The child was referred to CAMHS for an ADHD assessment but CAMHS said the child is autistic and would need the services of the CDNT. There was more to the story beforehand but I will not go back on it again. I have other parents waiting for services.

Another parent who was waiting for services and who has not received any is trying to put together enough funding to get a private assessment done for her child because she just feels she has to do this. To do that she needs some sort of form or referral from the CDNT and the staff on the team said they cannot give it because they has not seen the child. The parent is really caught in a situation where she cannot access private support without some sort of assessment from the CDNT but the CDNT will not give that because they have not seen the child. If the CDNT had been seeing the child and the child was in their services, the parent would not need to go and access an assessment privately.

I was told that a family forum that was held recently was very poorly attended and that they seem to be getting more disillusioned. It ended up that they said that the issue with the team in Cavan is that nobody wants to work in Cavan. That is not true.

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