The Psychiatric Nurses Association (PNA) has strongly condemned the closure of 11 of the 23 beds in the Linn Dara, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit, Cherry Orchard, Dublin.
The HSE confirmed that the beds would remain closed until at least September due to staff shortages.
PNA General Secretary Peter Hughes said it was inexplicable how the HSE has allowed the beds at Linn Dara to close in the light of the ongoing and worsening crisis in the provision of CAMHS services nationally.
