Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 2 March 2022
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE
Ms Anne O'Connor:
I will give a general view and Mr. Fitzgerald can come in then. We are fully committed to implementing the recommendations in this report. We accept them in full and will do everything we can to ensure that we develop a better service for everybody, particularly the people in south Kerry. From our perspective, there are many considerations with regard to how we deliver our services on foot of this and the three pieces of work we are embarking on will help inform our thinking further. The Deputy asked for assurances that we will have the service we all wish for. While we will do everything we can on that, there is a very real challenge with workforce availability at this time. There are growing numbers of people and doctors in training. There are more CAMHS-qualified consultants coming out this year than ever and we are investing in more nursing and so on. There is a finite resource available and our challenge is in making the best use of the resource available to us as we seek to develop our services and implement Sharing the Vision, which is the policy to which we are all working. I will ask Mr. Fitzgerald to come in specifically on Kerry.
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