Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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589. To ask the Minister for Health if emergency assessments by staff with child mental health qualifications are available for children, with identified mental health emergencies, who attend accident and emergency departments [34654/15]

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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590. To ask the Minister for Health his views on comments made (details supplied) that adequate arrangements had been made for transferring children of 16 or 17 years of age to the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service; and if not, if he will clarify the matter [34655/15]

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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591. To ask the Minister for Health the arrangements that have been made to resource the expansion of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service, outlined in the new Health Service Executive Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services standard operating procedure, to include children of 16 to 17 years of age; children with moderately severe mental health concerns; children referred by a wider group of professionals than previously [34656/15]

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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592. To ask the Minister for Health the position on the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service being unable to accept referrals because of a lack of resources; the degree to which this issue is widespread; and the way this issue is being addressed [34658/15]

Richard Boyd Barrett (Dún Laoghaire, People Before Profit Alliance)
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593. To ask the Minister for Health the number of catchment areas that have no permanent Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service consultant; and the number of those areas that are using a locum doctor who is not on the Child Psychiatry Specialist Register of the Medical Council; and if he will provide a list of these areas [34659/15]

Kathleen Lynch (Cork North Central, Labour)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 589 to 593, inclusive, together.

As this is a service issue these questions have been referred to the HSE for direct reply. If you have not received a response within 15 working days, please contact my Private Office and they will follow up the matter with them.