Colm Burke (Cork North Central, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

One of the problems we have with the HSE historically is that there has been a great reliance on independent agencies to provide services for people with intellectual disability and for people with physical disability and the HSE has not adjusted, as time has moved on, where it now has that role and is not implementing it. We have taken on over 40,000 additional people in the HSE in the past seven years. The same proportion has not been taken on in CAMHS. Have we any idea of the shortfall and of the kind of numbers we are talking about in real terms?