Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)

On the Deputy's question on CAMHS, this is something we have discussed many times down in Kerry. I will just touch on the north Kerry CAMHS review first, which is the north Kerry look-back review. It has taken longer than I would have liked it to. We found it very difficult to get a consultant to take it on. Dr. Sean Maskey was not available to do it. Dr. Colette Halpin, in fairness to her, has been looking at this. My main concern throughout the process has been to ensure that the children, the young people and their families are communicated with directly in advance of the publication of the look-back review. That has happened. I expect to have it by the end of the month. I will then act very swiftly on looking at a situation similar to south Kerry where we had the non-adversarial compensation scheme. The uptake in the non-adversarial compensation scheme for south Kerry has been extremely high. From the perspective of not trying to drag families through the courts, this is really positive. Unfortunately, since 2014 we have not been able to recruit a permanent consultant for south Kerry, which has been a funded post since then. We are dependent on locums and on other consultants, and in how they spend their time. For example, one consultant works two days in Kerry and three days in Cork. It is problematic for us but, at the same time, CAMHS in Kerry has improved greatly and I want to thank all the teams working down there.