Dr. Susan Finnerty:

The Deputy asked about distressed young people arriving in emergency departments with nowhere else to go. There is only one CAMHS emergency bed in the country, and that is in Galway.

None of the other units will take somebody as an emergency. What is happening is that when the person is in the emergency department everybody is ringing around trying to find a bed and if the risk is great the person ends up being admitted to adult units. The lack of emergency beds in CAMHS is quite stark.