The Taoiseach correctly described the scandal of inappropriate prescribing of medication to young mental health service users in County Kerry as deeply shocking. The wider public, in particular those availing of mental health services or whose children or young people are availing of mental health services, need an assurance at this time that what happened in Kerry is not happening anywhere else to anyone else. The Taoiseach has described what happened as a systemic collapse of clinical governance and management of the service. Will he set out what measures are in place to prevent this from happening in other mental health services? Will the Government act with urgency to resource child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, properly and to the required levels?

As I said earlier in reply to Deputy Shortall, this is unacceptable. A full nationwide audit of compliance with CAMHS operational guidelines by all CAMHS teams will happen. Furthermore, a prescribing audit will be conducted in each of the 72 CAMHS teams nationally. The Government is then going to look at any further measure that is required in the overall situation.