Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I also want to raise the issue we heard about yesterday in the Joint Committee on the Future of Mental Health Care. From 1 July this year three psychiatrists who look after children in the Waterford-Wexford area are going to resign because of the unsafe practices they have to work under in Wexford. These psychiatrists look after a population of up to 250,000 people. There are many children with these issues. Here we have a situation in which we have 3.6 people employed where there should be six. One of these is out on sick leave. We are going to end up with no psychiatrist for any child in the south east.

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