Ms Anne O'Connor:

Funding is a difficulty. We can tell the committee the number of staff working in the area and the cost of that but that does not give the full cost because it does not give the cost of some of the governance around the services, or the other costs embedded in a wider mental health budget. We can give the committee the cost of pay for CAMHS. We would like to have more funding to give other agencies as well so that it is not just a question of CAMHS and a discussion about recruitment. We need to work with partner agencies, we need to have more funding to give them. There is a deficit there. We would of course like to have more funding for that.