Northern Ireland’s Children’s Commissioner wept as she expressed concern that mental health services for young people are in jeopardy due to the latest Stormont crisis.
Koulla Yiasouma became emotional as she gave evidence to a joint sitting of the Assembly’s health and education committees on children’s mental health and wellbeing on Wednesday.
Apologising to MLAs for crying, Ms Yiasouma said it was “very worrying” that increased funding to improve mental health services was at risk due to the likelihood that a three-year budget will not now be signed off by Stormont ministers ahead of the election.
