Mental Health Services
Dail Éireann — 2023-04-20
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Mary Butler (FF), Waterford

I thank both Deputies for their questions. As I was going to say in response to Deputy Funchion, we are all very aware of the challenges we have in CAMHS throughout the country and of the fact waiting lists are going in only one direction, which the Minister and I are very unhappy about. We speak about it constantly.
One thing Deputy Ward did not mention is that there were 33% more referrals to CAMHS in the past two years than ever before, and the teams saw 21% more children than ever before. The number of referrals coming in is unprecedented-----

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Sitting date: 2023-04-20