John Lahart (Dublin South West, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Gloster and his team for the updates. I have four areas to discuss. I will dispense with the quick ones first because they might just need a report. I want to keep chasing Mr. Gloster, the HSE and the Land Development Agency, LDA, on the accommodation piece. Perhaps we could have an update in writing on that. The HSE needs to get aggressive about this. Accommodation costs are one of the key drivers of nurses leaving Ireland and Dublin. I and several other Oireachtas Members visited the Northern Assembly and Queen's University, where we met a number of the academics. Apparently the HSE is poaching a lot of their nurses because we pay them better, but they do not have accommodation cost issues. The idea of spare HSE land - I am being very loose with language - hanging around the place and not being utilised is unacceptable. I accept fully that the HSE says it is not a landlord or property developer, but there is an exciting potential opportunity there. That is the first issue.

Second, the CAMHS in CHO 7 is not good. Will the witnesses give a brief update? CHO 7 is the community health area that covers north Kildare, north Wicklow and south Dublin, some of which is in my constituency of Dublin South-West.