Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

If I can answer, 225,000 appointments were given to children in the care of CAMHS last year. Ninety-one people were added to mental health staffing between December 2021 and December 2022. It is not that we are not acting.

To drive CAMHS reform, I am holding a series of roundtable discussions with key CAMHS stakeholders. The first meeting, to be held this afternoon, will involve the College of Psychiatrists of Ireland, the HSE and the Department. In the next two weeks, there will be further meetings with NGOs relating to psychology and mental health reform - across the board - to see how we can address this issue. I am very concerned about the waiting lists.

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