Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 25 June 2025
Select Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised)
2:00 am
Michael Cahill (Kerry, Fianna Fail)
There are issues regarding staffing and beds remaining closed in community hospitals, namely, Dingle Community Hospital and Caherciveen Community Hospital. That is a huge problem in Kerry. Patients are being moved to other hospitals. As the Minister of State, Deputy O'Donnell well knows, this is sometimes up to two and a half hours away from their homes. I thank him for his intervention on a case there recently. We need to get these beds open.
I wish to ask the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, about CAMHS. We had the Maskey report and the north Kerry child and adolescent mental health service look back review. When will that be published? I was up on a number of deputations as a councillor. While I acknowledge the work done on this issue, this has had an impact on these individuals, many of whom are adults now. I witnessed this first-hand. There are people in my parish and in every corner of Kerry who have been impacted by this. We are talking about hundreds and hundreds of children. It was a major scandal. I wish to get an update in regard to what is happening in the context of engagement, compensation and the commitments that were given.
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