Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I thank the Deputy for raising the conference of the Psychiatric Nurses Association. When I finish here, I am heading to Trim, County Meath to address that conference at 3.50 p.m. I engage constantly with Mr. Hughes and the PNA. I thank them for all of the work they do. They often work with some of the most complex and vulnerable people in the country.

I want to put something on the record of the Dáil because it was referred to earlier. There are issues in relation to psychiatric nurse staffing for inpatient facilities for CAMHS. The current situation as we stand is that we have 51 beds staffed. We have young people in 31 of the beds. We have 20 beds available and there is no waiting list. It is important to put that on the record. I will be speaking about this further this afternoon.

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