Alan Shatter (Dublin South, Fine Gael)
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Question 107: To ask the Minister for Health and Children the steps, if any, taken by her with regard to concerns expressed to her about the alleged substandard consultant and management within the Brothers of Charity southern service, child and adolescent mental health services; if her attention has been drawn to the reason for the Health Service Executive engaging a recruitment agency to employ on a short-term basis a number of professionals to form a multidisciplinary team to undertake the assessment of children on the waiting list of south Lee team A; if she has investigated the reason the waiting list is currently three years despite there being no such waiting list in the neighbouring geographic area of south Lee team B; the number of psychologists or others who have reported to her that there are serious clinical and managerial inadequacies in the provision of this service; and the further reason nothing has happened for a period of 12 months to resolve this problem to the detriment of the children on the waiting lists in need of mental health services. [24397/10]

John Moloney (Laois-Offaly, Fianna Fail)
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The Health Service Executive and the Mental Health Commission have been asked to investigate the issues raised by the Deputy as a matter of urgency. I will revert to the Deputy as soon as possible.