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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: I call Deputy Kenny.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: I am conscious that a number of people are looking to contribute online. I ask them to indicate to the clerk. We will take a comfort break after Senator Kyne's contribution.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: I now invite a non-member of the committee, Deputy Wynne, to speak. She is very welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: That is accepted. A number of recommendations have come out of the meeting for the committee to follow up. I also have an input to make. We have been talking about the service, and it is clearly broken. Having worked in the services, I am also conscious that staff are working in extremely difficult circumstances. It would be remiss of the committee were it not to thank all those people...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: They are doing it out of desperation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: If we ask the Minister, the HSE and the Mental Health Commission about it when they are in at the committee they all accept that it is not the ideal and that families should not have to go there to get support and assessment in relation to needs. If the system is broken and they have no other alternative, however, that is what people have to do.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: I am conscious that we have not touched on the inpatient CAMHS beds. There is a situation where we have services and we have the facilities but we do not have the staff to facilitate those. Am I right to say that the target is 130? Is there any update on those figures?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: I have had situations where people with suicidal ideation turn up at the emergency department and are eventually released and told they will have an appointment in 12 months. Would that be unusual?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: I know of another case where the child was coming up to the age of 18 and the family felt they were being put on the long finger and being put off. It was suggested that they might go to a private charity. Would that be unusual coming up to that age?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: I am concentrating on the issues with the emergency departments again. I know of a case of a family where the child, a young adult, was self-harming, suicidal and walking around naked, was showing all the symptoms and it was clearly a breakdown, and there were no supports. They were being released. The family at one stage said they could not take the person back. The option was a homeless...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: Going back to the issue of key personnel being missing on those teams, I have put this question to various officials and the Minister. How do you recruit for a post where someone will have a workload of hundreds of cases or even a thousand cases? It is impossible to get someone to take on that workload without additional supports.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: Yes. If we stay silent on an issue, how are people to know there is a problem there? Last of all, the group's survey says one in nine people accesses services through a TD. That is an indication the system does not work because TDs are not the way for people to get medical supports or assessments. It is wrong the system relies on TDs and that needs to change as well. It should happen...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: We talked about the financial costs but there are other costs on relationships, for example. We all know, unfortunately, that if you have a child who has issues it puts huge pressure on families. I mentioned that, in some families, there is more than one child in that situation. We did not mention An Garda Síochána. That is another service called on which is totally unsuitable...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Seán Crowe: As politicians, it is not uncommon that we would come across cases where families have brought a loved one to the emergency department, they have been released and then there has been a suicide. There is a tsunami of that across the State, as we know, but we do not have the figures until a year or two down the road. We hear those stories quite often about the families who have tried to get...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Business of Joint Committee (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: No apologies have been received. Before we get to the main item on today's agenda, the minutes of the committee meetings of 5 and 6 December 2023 have been circulated among the members for consideration. Are they agreed? Agreed.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Cardiovascular Health, Stroke and Heart Attack: Discussion (13 Dec 2023)

Seán Crowe: The purpose of the meeting today is for the joint committee to consider issues regarding cardiovascular health, stroke and heart attack with representatives from the Irish Heart Foundation and Croí. The meeting will maintain a particular focus on programmes, services and prevention of cardiovascular-related illnesses. To enable the committee to consider this matter, I am pleased to...