Dan Neville (Limerick, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Commitments have been made to eliminate that. I know there are problems in regard to the three locations of Dublin, Cork and Galway. A child from Donegal who has to be admitted will have to travel to Galway and their parents will have to travel to Galway to be with them. There are problems around that and I do not know how we can get over it. The number of child psychiatric beds has increased threefold during the past ten years. Despite the commitment to eliminate that practice, children are still being treated in adult wards in the adult mental health services. That is inappropariate for any child and even one child being treated there is one too many.