Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

On the first part of the Deputy's question, we have and will provide a breakdown of the resource allocation for mental health and CAMHS by CHO area, which obviously drives the budget allocation. We can also fill the Deputy in on current recruitment plans or gaps. We know we have very specific challenges in some parts of the country, not just in CAMHS recruitment. We have a particular focus on increasing the pool or panel of resources coming through, especially for our specialist clinical resources, and clinical psychiatrists in particular, in CAMHS. We will provide that. I will ask my colleague to respond on the particular focus we have had on reducing the number of adolescents or children in adult mental health service resident places.