Mr. Paul Reid:

As I said earlier, I have personally met families who have children in CAMHS, children who are in the CAMHS system and CAMHS management all across the country. There is no doubt but that many children are getting really good care in the CAMHS system. The Deputy has highlighted areas in which there are weaknesses. I believe we will surface these. The whole purpose of the national audit of the CAMHS system is to identify those issues that result in people in the CAMHS system not getting the treatment they should. With the then Minister of State, Deputy McEntee, I co-chaired the young mental health task force which addressed many of these issues with regard to both people progressing through CAMHS and people progressing to adult services and the handover process associated with that, which is not appropriate. I believe we will surface many of the issues the Deputy has raised. They should not exist.