Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

First, these decisions relating to staff rotation are part and parcel of strategic workforce planning. That decision is taken by the local area director of nursing, who is fully entitled to do that.

I want to make a second point.

Over the past two years, I secured an extra €97 million for mental health. It is the largest ever budget. I will always be looking for more when I am in this post. There are some positives out there. As a result of the budget I secured last year, 55 new staff were hired in CAMHS throughout the country. One of them is the psychologist we are speaking about. A total of 45 people were hired for eating disorder teams. A new eating disorder team is coming to CHO 5 this year. It will be in place towards the end of the year. I am building them-----

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