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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

...paying for online assessments. They are meeting with the psychiatrists in other parts of Europe. They are travelling to those destinations and are coming back with prescriptions for very severe drugs but there is no medical oversight. We have had instances where parents have tried to contact those providers in those overseas jurisdictions after the event but were unable to access them...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Ms Grainne Morrison: There are a lot in Spain and other parts of Europe, depending on where the psychiatric services are. As Ms Deasy said, children in Ireland are going on controlled drugs that have been prescribed by psychiatrists in different countries.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: When a child who has had an assessment and is on medication comes into CAMHS is the assessment changed with regard to how the drug is prescribed?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

...that. A significant amount can be done in that regard in addition to medication. Medication is a game-changer for many children, as many of our members would attest, but one does not know how a drug will react in a child's system until one tries it. A parent could spend up to 12 months trying to get the drug right to suit his or her child. There is chopping and changing of drugs, in an...