Girl, 10, in 'full-blown mental health crisis' receiving no care, Sinn Féin leader tells Dáil

Girl, 10, in 'full-blown mental health crisis' receiving no care, Sinn Féin leader tells Dáil

Sinn Féin president Mary Lou McDonald said such stories 'are replicated in the thousands" and that 'children deserve better'. Picture:Gareth Chaney/Collins

A 10-year-old girl in a "full-blown mental health crisis" is receiving no care, the Dáil has been told.

Sinn Féin leader Mary McDonald told Public Expenditure Minister Paschal Donohoe during Leaders' Questions that she and two of her TDs — David Cullinane and Mark Ward — had met with families of children affected by a lack of places in the system and referenced one young girl named Maggie.

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