Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE

Mr. Michael Fitzgerald:

The 35 recommendations made by Dr. Maskey cover a wide range of areas, as the Deputy knows. We will certainly have a better service when those recommendations are implemented.

I want to reassure people that while we have had significant issues in south Kerry, a lot of children are receiving services from the CAMHS teams across Cork and Kerry. I assure the families of children who go in each day and receive services from those multidisciplinary teams, the children themselves, and, indeed, the young adults who receive adult services and who might have come from CAMHS, that the service process is robust. We do not have concerns with regard to it now. We will also be guided by the national audit we spoke about earlier and each of the teams will be subject to an audit.

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