Mental Health Services
Dail Éireann — 2026-07-09
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Liam Quaide (SD), Cork East

I ask about CAMHS-ID services, which are specialist teams for children and adolescents with a moderate to profound intellectual disability and coexisting mental health difficulties. According to the HSE, and by its own admission, no CAMHS-ID team nationally is staffed to the level recommended in its own model of care. Will the Minister of State set out the current number of approved CAMHS-ID posts, broken down by discipline and team, the number of new posts approved in 2026, the shortfall against the model of care, and the timeline for ensuring that every CAMHS-ID team is fully staffed?

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Sitting date: 2026-07-09