Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin (Cavan-Monaghan, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I do not argue there have not been improvements. I am highlighting, as is my role and responsibility, what needs to be done. There is so much in the mental health area and I know the Minister of State is as aware of it as I am.

There can be no way we could fail to utilise that €15 million in the coming year.

I refer to the waiting list for CAMHS. Children continue to be admitted to adult wards with 158 admissions up to the end of June, 53 of whom were placed in adult wards, while in July more than 2,700 children and adolescents were waiting to be seen by CAMHS.

These moneys were pushed into other areas of the health budget in previous years and they could be pushed into other mental health services. If the Minister of State is not adding this money in 2015, whatever value her commitment may have, will she seek and secure it and add it for 2016?

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