Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for raising this important question. He is quite right. Currently, we have 52 beds operational, and 21 beds closed.

The reason they are closed is due to a safe staffing issue. However, what we have been doing is investing more in community teams. We have taken up, where necessary, private capacity, and I am monitoring the waiting list week on week regarding inpatient supports for young people. Whether it is the unit in Merlin Park University Hospital in Galway, Éist Linn in Cork, or Linn Dara in Cherry Orchard Hospital in Dublin, we are keeping a focus on this and the waiting list this week stands at one person waiting for inpatient admittance to a CAMHS unit.

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