Mental Health Bill 2024: Report and Final Stages
Seanad Éireann — 2026-04-16
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Mary Butler (FF), Waterford

That will bring it to 45 suicide crisis assessment nurses, SCAN, in total in 2026. They work in the community closely with GPs. I announced six more teams. They work in pairs. One team follows on from the CAMHS team in Portiuncula Hospital to support young Travellers. There is a huge amount of presentations there. The other CAMHS team will be in Cherry Orchard in Dublin in Linn Dara. It is a new initiative to have SCANs specifically for CAMHS. I compliment them up in Donegal which I visited last summer where they developed generically a SCAN for young people to help them out. It is a really important part of a crisis response which I have funded this year. That will bring to 45 the number of suicide crisis assessment nurses. I want to give a big shout-out to them all.
They do a phenomenal job.

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Sitting date: 2026-04-16