Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

Regarding recruitment and training, there is a particular focus on higher specification trainees and bringing more through and equally basic specialist trainees. In respect of what we are seeing in terms of that investment, we will see graduations move from about 23 to 46 this year, of which approximately 12 or 13 will be for CAMHS. They are specifically related to consultant posts so there is the potential for a further 12 for CAMHS. This is a challenging pipeline.