Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 October 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion

Mr. David Walsh:

I might add that one of the issues impacting us is that the service in relative terms is quite small. We need to grow the service, which may sound contradictory when we cannot recruit. When people are convinced that there is a service that will be effective and will meet the needs of the children and young people in their area, and have confidence in that service, it becomes much easier to attract people into it. We have gotten investment over the past couple of years and we need to continue to try to grow that service. As Senator Kyne mentioned, if we are to expand more into the youth space, it will definitely require investment to attract people into that.

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