Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 February 2023

Joint Committee On Health

Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE

Photo of Gino KennyGino Kenny (Dublin Mid West, People Before Profit Alliance)
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Regarding the commission's report and alluding back to the original tenet of their report about underfunding and understaffing, there is understaffing, there are governance issues and clinical issues of oversight where it does not happen. What is the HSE's commentary on the commission's assessment that the cause, in its words, was that CAMHS was deeply underfunded and understaffed in respect of some of the situations that arose in its assessment?