Dr. John Hillery:

It does keep being repeated that we need to wait for the new Act. If that new Act is going to happen very quickly, that is great. Otherwise, though, I think we should get something in the meantime. Recommendation No. 47 in Dr. Finnerty's report is that "Each young person and their family should be offered the opportunity to provide feedback on their experience in CAMHS. [The] information should be collected using standardised templates and used to improve quality of services both within the individual CAMHS Teams and across each CHO".

The Deputy also asked about follow-up with people. I am afraid my answer is the same one again. This is a standard. People should be followed up. We published an interim report, which I do not think we have ever done before, because of Dr. Finnerty's concerns regarding many children. It would be awful if there were many to follow-up, but it was worse than that because we could not find out whether they had been lost to follow-up or not. No records were being kept to allow us to judge whether this was the case. The HSE has assured us this has been rectified now. Obviously, once again, and I am sorry to repeat the same thing-----