Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 June 2025
Committee on Disability Matters
Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed)
2:00 am
Mr. Bernard Gloster:
We are challenged in respect of both for the same reasons. When I started working in the health service, I remember that there was one CAMHS consultant with no staff for the entire mid-west region. There are now five or six teams led by consultants and we are moving into some specialising with CAMHS-ID. Servicing the demand for the multitude of multidisciplinary teams is next to impossible. That is where the problem is. The pace of progress is passing us out and we have to find other methods of supporting that. We can come back to the issue of the community neurorehabilitative teams later, and Ms Queally will speak to that. They are so badly needed yet populating them is so difficult.
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