Cathal Crowe (Clare, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses from the HSE for their engagement. I have a number of questions. I will begin with child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS. The Department of Education last year launched a pilot in-school therapeutic support scheme in counties Cavan, Laois, Leitrim, Longford, Mayo, Monaghan and Tipperary. Have the witnesses any metrics as to how CAMHS waiting lists have fared in those counties? Over the past academic year, which only ended in the past week, children in schools in those counties had access to psychotherapists, play therapists and counsellors that children in other counties do not ordinarily have the same access to. Has the HSE seen any improvement in CAMHS in those counties specifically?