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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: I thank Professor Lucey for his contribution. It was sombre but sets the scene for the questions we need to go into. He outlined in a powerful way the challenges facing many children and their families who are trying to access supports and services. I intend to end this session approximately 11 a.m., at which point we will bring in the representatives of the HSE for the second half of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: Again, I am going to try to keep contributions to ten minutes. The extended opening statement means we are under pressure to get all members in. I ask everyone to please work with me. Deputy Ward is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: Deputy Shortall is next.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: I am conscious we have ten minutes left. Will members take five minutes each? Do they want to wait for the HSE and then come in first?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: I cannot manufacture time. Does Deputy Burke want to lead off on the next session?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: Senator Conway has one question and I want to ask a question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: The Mental Health Commission report states that staff retention was a key factor and a major challenge in recruiting new staff. It was identified in human resources practices. Could the witnesses elaborate or enlighten us on that section?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: I suppose the pattern we are getting all the time is that there are key personnel missing from the teams. Those are the inadequacies. I am not talking about a postcode lottery but if we do not have the teams in place, those children are being failed in those areas.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: The longer the list, the harder it is to get someone to go in. If someone is going to go in and is told they have a caseload of 300 kids before they even start-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: The committee will now resume its consideration of the recent report of the Mental Health Commission on the vision of child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, in the State. I am pleased to welcome from the HSE Mr. David Walsh, national director community operations, Mr. Donan Kelly, assistant national director for child and youth mental health, and Dr. Amanda Burke, national...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: We will move on to members’ questions.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: Please do not. I do not have the time. I will change things up by allowing in Deputy Lahart, who has not come in yet. I will come in after that before I go back to the normal order.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: I have just a couple of questions. The last group of witnesses we had in, from the Mental Health Commission, spoke about the commission's 49 recommendations. Does the HSE accept those 49 recommendations? How long will it take to implement them?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: That is really good news. The lack of service uniformity was touched on in respect of where key personnel may be missing and where there is a lack of clinical leadership. Do the representatives accept there is genuine concern about the services in this regard? The commission's report shows that some aspects are working really well while others are not. It also refers to the overall...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: There is an air of desperation among many families. Some go through the courts looking for supports and services. This option is not available to everyone because not everyone has the finances. Let me refer to another issue. It is local but not necessarily so. Regarding CHO 7, the Mental Health Commission's report states up to 30% of children on antipsychotic medication have not had...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: I am just giving the example of CHO 7 but the issue arises in other areas as well.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: I would have imagined that measuring height and weight would have been one of the simpler steps. It is done regularly if you go into a hospital for serious treatment, and not much work is involved. A specialised group is not needed to weigh someone. How much of a challenge is having appropriate facilities to provide services? In many of our areas, there are many vacant buildings that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: Previously, one of the challenges was that if a team did not have a psychologist, for instance, it could not move on as regards supports and so on. The idea of colocation or of sharing that psychologist with two or three areas is so that there is movement in the cases of children in that particular area. Is that it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Seán Crowe: We have reached the end of the meeting. On behalf of the committee, I extend thanks to the witnesses for their attendance, assistance and many responses to our questions today. Although it was mentioned near the end, we did not really touch on moving towards the age of 25 and the big gap there is between child, youth, and adult services. We would like to see a seamless transfer of services...