Ireland has half the number of Camhs beds than recommended in 2006 

Psychiatric Nurses Association general secretary Peter Hughes said in May 2022, 11 beds at the Camhs Linn Dara unit, in Cherry Orchard Hospital, Dublin, was closed due to staff shortages.

Psychiatric nurses have described HSE plans to close a 10-bed child in-patient mental health unit as “inconceivable”, given the country has only half the beds officially recommended 20 years ago.

The Psychiatric Nurses Association said the proposal to close the unit at St Vincent’s Hospital in Fairview, North Dublin, was in the context of there being just 50 in-patient beds in the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Service (Camhs).