Leo Varadkar (Dublin West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

The Minister will provide more details on the audit in early course. It is intended that it will be nationwide. It will be an audit of compliance with CAMHS operational guidelines by all CAMHS teams to ensure the other 71 teams have been prescribing appropriately. This will include a random selection of files proportional to the medical caseload from a continuous six-month predefined time period in 2021. Additional clinical resources have been made available to the team in Kerry including an additional doctor. However, the HSE has not been successful in filling the consultant psychiatrist post and recruitment efforts continue. In the meantime, a consultant psychiatrist post from another team attends on site two days per week and provides support through the rest of the week. That is only an interim solution. The Government is willing to offer a Sláintecare contract to consultants with an annual salary of more than €200,000 if they commit to public practice and public practice only. We are working very hard to get agreement from the doctors' representatives to put that in place so that we can offer that contract and perhaps fill posts such as this.

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