Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Friday, 9 November 2012
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure and Reform
Pre-Budget Submissions: Discussion with Civic Society Representatives
Since 2005 the number of persons who have gone to prison in Ireland has increased by about 40%. This is during the period when we were supposed to implement the mental health policy. We lost 600 beds in the acute mental health services during that period.
One can think about what is happening in terms of the transfer of expenditure to a better way of developing more efficient community based services rather than an actual reduction of expenditure overall.
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