I bring to the attention of the Government the serious crisis in child and adolescent mental health services in the Louth-Meath area. There is presently no out-of-hours service liaison for these children and adolescents. There are no plans or resources to develop such a service. There is no approved centre for child and adolescent mental health services either. A farcical situation was brought to my attention yesterday whereby a clinical psychologist, who studied for 11 years and was trained by the HSE at a cost of €140,000, has been told that his primary care psychology services job in County Louth is gone and has been indefinitely postponed. He is now applying for social welfare. The Government must address the issue of CAMHS and exclude psychologists from this blanket ban, which is entirely unacceptable.

I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. I share his concerns regarding child and adolescent mental health services. Two days ago, I met the new national clinical lead for CAMHS and the new national director of the youth mental health office, Mr. Donan Kelly, who took up post on 1 September. I am very hopeful that we will see an improvement in the supports that are being provided to young people. The Deputy spoke about an approved centre. We have four inpatient approved centres in the country, two in Dublin, one in Cork and one in Merlin Park, Galway, which are sufficient to provide those type of supports at present.

On out-of-hours services, in the past two months, I announced five new online hubs to support young people but if the Deputy wants to bring specifics to my attention, I will certainly look at them for him.