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- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: Is it the schools or the Department that is preventing those services from being put in place where they are needed?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: Yes, we just need to start implementing them. Senator Warfield is next.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: I am looking at the figures and at the increase in unrelated adults who contacted the Ombudsman’s office. Some trends identified were the special needs assistants, SNAs, allocations. These complaints related to the shared allocation of SNAs and support and how the decisions on the level of allocation impacted the children. Has anything changed since in relation to SNAs?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: In Deputy Buckley's and in all our offices, we hear the whole time of early intervention. The Ombudsman is probably hearing it as well. There seems to be dragging of heels the whole time. I am sure children are falling through cracks because of the lack of early intervention and the lack of SNAs. There are constant complaints related to mental health and it is often related to the...
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: So is Dr. Muldoon saying that by not getting them to primary care, and everybody being shoved into CAMHS, that is part of the problem and why CAMHS is so clogged up?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: Is there a reason? Is it a lack of staff at the primary care centres?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: With all the discussions about CAMHS, we should probably be focused on primary care first, and get that sorted first, or do it unison.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: There is no talk about primary care.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: There would be a certain amount of that 12,000 who, if the primary care centre was looked after, would never have to be moved on to CAMHS?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: Is it a lack, so, from the HSE or is it the Department that is not putting a push?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: A failed system.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: Instead of just doing the same thing over and over again.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: Einstein had a theory on that, that it would be madness if one keeps doing it. Maybe someone at a higher level than us might start changing things.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: There is some blockage there. It is just crazy that if everyone is identifying where the problem is, and the same thing is being repeated over and over again, then somebody needs to start thinking outside the box or going in a different direction.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: It is a great throwaway line to say that they are increasing spending, but it a question of how you are doing the spending.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: Moving on to direct provision, I am looking at what the Office of the Ombudsman for Children's reports for 2021 and 2022 had to say about the addition of the children coming in from Ukraine. Could we touch on that for a minute, in terms of what kind of extra pressures that has put on, and where we stand with the White Paper on ending direct provision that was talked about?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: That is what I was just going to ask. With the new arrivals, or even the current events, has it become more difficult for children to access the vulnerability services that some of them would need?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: Is Dr. Corrigan saying that in light of the assessments that are needed and the lack of services, many cases are a matter of ticking boxes and saying the assessment is done? Is that the case rather than children getting the services they need? Is that the fear?
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: As opposed to assessments.
- Committee on Public Petitions: Ombudsman for Children's Annual Report 2021: Office of the Ombudsman for Children (15 Jun 2023)
Martin Browne: It is frightening to think that that is going on.