Mark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I was contacted by a parent during the week and there were also reports in the newspapers concerning a young Irishman who was a patient of CAMHS. He spent more than three years in an adult facility here and has now been transferred over to Britain for treatment. I do not know if the witnesses saw this case referred to during the week. This young man's mother contacted me. She rang the hospital in Britain because she was worried about what the treatment over there was going to be like, how her son would make friends and things like that. This is anecdotal evidence, but his mother told me there are loads of Irish people over in Britain. How often does it happen that young adults are transferred over to Britain for treatment? How many times does it happen each year? What is the cost to the Exchequer?