Frances Black (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I welcome our witnesses today. I ask them to talk us through the prescribing audit. Children and young people are referred to CAMHS with many different issues including self-harm, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, suicidal tendencies, ADHD and so on. We are talking about a very broad range of complex needs and in that context, I am interested in how the audit will work. I understand that it will be an independent, random sample audit of a proportion of the caseload and I am interested in the finer details. It is vitally important that confidence is rebuilt and parents are reassured. Will it work in the same way as the audit in Kerry, where red flags were raised and a full look-back of files was commissioned, resulting in the Maskey report? Why narrow the scope of the review? Should the aim not be to conduct as thorough a review as possible? If there are problems on a wider scale, how will narrowing the scope of the review identify the issues and what needs to be fixed?