Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Ms Anne O'Connor:

If they go into CAMHS, it is a multidisciplinary team. In effect, they are triaged and assessed. Dr. Burke is better place than I am to talk about how a CAMHS team works. From a HSE perspective, in the context of how we have developed other supports, we have invested in the development of CAMHS teams in terms of that multidisciplinary approach across the health and social professionals, nursing and medical, but we have also then looked at other supports.