Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 29 May 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Developments in Mental Health Services: Discussion
Dr. Shari McDaid:
I will make a comment in reply to the Deputy's questions. Clearly, CAMHS are very under-resourced. They have approximately 56% of the recommended number of staff. Inevitably, those services retrench. They heighten the criteria for admission because they feel that they cannot cope. There was also a major increase in demand - it is believed to have been 25% - for CAMHS.
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