The latest available data from the HSE indicates that the 2018 national targets for access to child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, are not on track. Up to 2,453 children and adolescents are waiting for CAMHS appointments. Of those, 1,400 are waiting more than three months and 313 waiting more than 12 months. This fails to meet the HSE target that no young person should wait more than 12 months for a CAMHS appointment. What is the Government doing to address these waiting times? As the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, is aware, Cork has nearly doubled its waiting time figures this year.

We have made significant progress with CAMHS. Up to 83% of young people who wanted to access psychiatric care in the community, free of charge, were seen within 12 weeks. We are making significant progress, notwithstanding the challenges we face. I would love to preside over a 100% success rate but that utopia still escapes us. We will continue with our endeavour to improve the service.

We still have people waiting 12 months.

I remind Members to ask questions on promised legislation. I call Deputy Neville.

The HSE in the mid-west, in conjunction with its CAMHS consultants, is considering the best way to respond to unplanned appointments. It has experienced challenges in maintaining a full 24-hour on-call service. It is continuing to respond to emergencies by day and hopes to be able to produce a final plan shortly. Will the Minister of State clarify the position in respect of the review? Why are these services not fully provided? Will he give me an answer on this and seek to get to the bottom of it as soon as possible?

I am aware of this review. The issue underpinning this is that the number of people who sought the service out-of-hours last year was 14. We have to look at available resources and see if that is the best use of them. We are engaging with the consultants on this, as well as patients, their families and the HSE, to see we are deploying our resources in the most appropriate manner.