Rose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

This is a really important issue relating to eating disorders. Can it really be the case that there are only three public specialist adult eating disorder beds in the country? Can it then be the case that those three beds are in Dublin? Has the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, said there is no need for an additional 20 inpatient beds? Between 2018 and 2022, 718 adults presented to the HSE with a primary diagnosis of an eating disorder. I ask for a solution. Too many of these people are living in my constituency. There is a 20-year-old girl who is 37 kg. Nobody in the HSE will help her. This happens to so many. They are sent home and told to wait until their weight gets lower and lower and their organs are damaged, and then they go back in through the emergency departments again. I beg the Government to please help these people with eating disorders, who need help.

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