Conor McGuinness (Waterford, Sinn Fein)
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219. To ask the Minister for Health if she will provide a list of all approved mental health centres currently registered with the Mental Health Commission; to indicate for each whether it is designated as an acute facility; the number of in-patient psychiatric beds available at each centre; and the number of instances in which a child was admitted to an adult psychiatric unit at each location, for each of the past ten years, in tabular form. [34843/25]

Mary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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The Mental Health Commission's (MHC) 2024 Annual Report, which will be published this Friday, June 27, 2025, notes that the frequency and duration of the admission of children to adult approved centres continued to decrease last year.

Information on registered centres, bed numbers and child admissions to adult inpatient mental health units (approved centres) is available on the website of the MHC and can be found at the following link: www.mhcirl.ie/. 2024 figures for child admissions to adult units will be included in the Commission's 2024 Annual Report.