Mick Barry (Cork North Central, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

I thank Mr. Kane for coming to address the committee.

We have a huge challenge. People are in serious need, including people whose health is at stake and people whose lives are at stake; there are huge issues here. I am sitting on this side of the table and Mr. Kane is on the far side. I am a member of this committee, the Joint Committee on Future of Mental Health Care. He is a member of a committee charged with developing a ten-year successor to A Vision for Change. It is not exactly the same. The future of mental health services could be 20, 30 or 40 years. Mr. Kane's remit is for the next ten years. However, there seems to be a massive overlap between what we have been asked to do and what his group has been asked to do. Senator Kelleher pointed out that there have been 48 reports on this.