Billy Kelleher (Cork North Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I urge the Minister of State to ensure that she keeps on top of this and liaises with the local office and with Sinead Glennon to ensure that recruitment is expedited. If we have to be imaginative in how we recruit, then so be it. We have to bring forward solutions to the problems in the emergency departments where we simply have no resources available for vulnerable children and adolescents, as explained in the letter circulated to GPs. Moreover, in letters GPs have forwarded to local Deputies, GPs have expressed legitimate concerns about their patients being put at risk because of the dearth of supports.

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