Ms Harriet Parsons:

A person under 18 who has been assessed to need an inpatient bed, or is very unwell and it is obvious they need an inpatient bed, will most likely go to one of the children's hospitals, such as those in Crumlin, Temple Street, Tallaght, Cork University Hospital or University Hospital Galway. It depends on where they are in the country. If they are physically very unwell that is where they will go and they will then be stabilised and discharged into an inpatient CAMHS bed, in Linn Dara, Merlin Park, Éist Linn in Cork or St. Joseph's in north Dublin. Every situation is different. As a result, it is difficult to say what way it will happen at the moment. One of the things that is important to get right in the development of services is consistency in order that I could say to the Deputy definitively what would happen. At the moment, I cannot say for sure, unless the Deputy wants to name a specific area.