The programme for Government commits to the full implementation of A Vision for Change in a manner that recognises geographic accessibility. In my constituency of Louth, despite this commitment vulnerable people have wholly inadequate mental health services and parents have to travel very significant distances with their children. There is an excellent health services team in Ladywell but the building is not fit for purpose; it cannot house the services for the community needs.

Responses to parliamentary questions show that data on children's psychology waiting times are not available. Nor are data available to show how much of the HSE budget is spent on child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS. That means that those responsible for delivering these services for our youngsters do not know how long children are waiting to see a psychologist. They do not know how much funding is spent on CAMHS. How can a Government plan, resource and deliver the service that is deeply needed-----

I thank the Deputy.

----- in areas such as Dundalk, if it does not have the basic data necessary to do this? How will the Government deal with this data anomaly in order that CAMH services can be delivered where they are needed?

The programme for Government commitment is to implement A Vision for Change and to improve mental health services in Ireland. That is a commitment we will honour. As the Deputy knows, the budget for mental health in 2018 will be €912 million. That will help to bring us further towards implementing A Vision for Change. That is an increase from €853 million this year, €822 million the previous year, €791 million in the year before that, and €711 million when the party I lead came to office. That is a 25% increase in a relatively short number of years.

Data anomalies and data collection are not matters for the programme for Government or legislation. I encourage the Deputy to raise that matter with the Minister for Health.