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

I thank the HSE for attending today. I wish Dr. Burke and Mr. Kelly the best in their new roles.

I spent the recess meeting some youth mental health services, including CAMHS. I met Lucena CAMHS. The staff who are working there are doing their best. They are being let down by systemic and historical failures and sometimes by a lack of governance, which are outside their control. I want to put that on the record. When people come into this line of work, it is a vocation. They want to help children and to do their best. Sometimes it looks like we are being overly critical of CAMHS. It is not the staff; it is more the systemic failures.

I will touch on a statement made earlier, which is also in the report. It is that 94% of all urgent cases were responded to within three working days. Do the witnesses stand over that?