A working group has been established by my Department to review child and adolescent psychiatry provision and to finalise a plan for the further development of this service. The group published its first report in March 2001. This first report of this group emphasises that the treatment of ADHD/HKD is an integral component of the provision of a comprehensive child and adolescent psychiatric service. It recommends the enhancement and expansion of the overall child and adolescent psychiatric service throughout the country as the most effective means of providing the required services for this group. It also recommends that priority should be given, in the first instance, to the recruitment of the required expertise for the completion of existing consultant led, multi-disciplinary teams. The report also calls for closer liaison and interaction with the education system and other areas of the community health services.