Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Joint Committee On Health

Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE

Mr. Damien McCallion:

No, and I think in fairness to the commission, when issues were found in individual cases during its work, it always alerted us immediately, which is what we would want and expect. Those were dealt with accordingly. On the broader issues, they are fairly comprehensive regarding the areas identified that we need to work on. As I mentioned earlier, as those were flagged along the way and in the interim report, we have worked to improve those. Some of them are not short-term things to fix. In terms of resourcing, they require strategic actions that will help increase the number of people we have available to work in CAMHS, and to retain there, for the longer term. At this stage, we have not had anything that has been escalated.