James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail)
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136. To ask the Minister for Health the type of beds in the national children’s hospital for CAMHS services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [10035/19]

Simon Harris (Wicklow, Fine Gael)
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The new children’s hospital will include the facilities of a 20 bed acute Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) inpatient unit. The provider of the service will be the HSE CAMHS service.

The 20 bed unit will function as two distinct subunits: a 12 bed acute generic CAMHS inpatient unit primarily serving the Greater Dublin and surrounding areas, which will form part of the network of existing CAMHS inpatient units; and an 8 bed national specialist eating disorder unit for those with severe and or complex eating disorders whose needs have not or could not be met in the other CAMHS inpatient units.