Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)

To have an appropriate level of inpatient CAMHS beds would absolutely be the pinnacle and that is where we need to get to. I recommend to the Minister of State that the young people who were placed in adult psychiatric units, voluntarily or involuntarily, should be brought back in as part of the five-year review. In five years, we will have the first opportunity to review the implementation and effectiveness of this legislation. They are a very unique cohort of people. We should listen to them. I am very annoyed that the amendment was ruled out of order because we could have had a very detailed and beneficial debate. I would have been less annoyed if it was not disallowed on the cost issue.

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