Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE

Ms Anne O'Connor:

The first step for that has been to determine what that audit is. We have had to design the criteria and standards that we audit against. That work has been done. We have also been securing an independent chair for the review; we have now secured that person. The first meeting of the oversight group is scheduled for tomorrow afternoon. We will kick off from there. We have an independent chair. It took us some time to find somebody who would be suitably independent to carry out that work and it has taken us considerable time to design how we do that audit. That work has started.