The country's inadequate mental health service is straining under the pressure caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
That's according to Mental Health Reform, which will appear before the Oireachtas sub-committee on mental health today.
It will say the child and adolescent mental health service is 40 per cent under-staffed, with over 2,000 kids waiting for their first appointment.
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