Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 29 September 2022

Public Accounts Committee

2021 Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Health
Health Service Executive - Financial Statements 2021

9:30 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

No, and to be frank, we do not have the required resourcing that we want in mental health and in disabilities. We have real challenges in recruiting in the area. I am confident that we have put in all the potential recruitment processes that we can, including doing so overseas to recruit specialists into the area. We are also looking at the pipeline of what is coming through from colleges to see how that can be strengthened. While there are real risks in terms of resourcing in mental health, I am satisfied, based on the case to which the Deputy referred of the junior doctor in south Kerry, that we have put in the processes to identify further risks across the country or any further controls that we have to put in place in CAMHS. Equally, I want to assure the committee and the public all across the country today that people are getting good service in CAMHS and our mental health services and where we have identified issues, we are addressing them.

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