Ms Anne O'Connor:

The Deputy is right about the situation. Part of the challenge is the numbers in terms of having people available on call and rostering of consultants. The reality is that we are trying to grow that model in terms of crisis support. Our goal is to try to keep people away from the acute services. Some of the investment in mental health has gone into that in terms of supporting other agencies to provide services. Our role is very much at the specialist end in terms of secondary and tertiary care by our community teams. We know that we have young people turning up at emergency departments and the paediatric hospitals. We see more of that post-Covid than we ever have. We are looking at how to respond in a far more integrated way. The reality for us is that we are very challenged in terms of recruiting consultants into CAMHS. We have some gaps and this has been well-aired previously. We have locum consultants coming in-----