Danny Healy-Rae (Kerry, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish both Ministers of State well in their new jobs. County Kerry has its fair share of mental health problems. We all know what happened with south Kerry CAMHS when 250 children were badly wronged, mistreated and badly let down. Not much has changed since then in south Kerry. Families are left to their own devices to try to mind their children around the clock. Some people cannot go to work because they have to stay with their children. There seems to be no way out. There is a waiting list of two years in some cases. That is not fair or adequate at all in this day and age, when a life could be depending on a bit of help. People need proper help and not just antidepressants. We are still waiting for the report on north Kerry CAMHS. A junior doctor was blamed in south Kerry. I wonder who will be blamed when the story comes out in north Kerry because it is up the line and we are not getting the proper services down to the patients.

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