Ms Hannah N? Ghiolla Mhairt?n:

No. Talking about the staffing shortages, many of the teams we work with in CAMHS are very open with us where they do not have the resources or capacity to provide the therapeutic supports or the extra help which is required. We very much support the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland which is saying that there is an urgent need to reform the mental health system to attract new staff in and to incentivise them to come into the system. That is because at the moment even private psychiatrists are so hard to access. Many people say to us when they hear we are trying to access CAMHS that they would remortgage their house, get a loan or do whatever they could to access a private psychiatrist in Ireland. Private psychiatrists have waiting lists of six to 12 months which is often too long when one is in an emergency situation.