Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 22 November 2017
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care
Funding and Budgeting of Mental Health Services: Health Service Executive
2:00 pm
Tony McLoughlin (Sligo-Leitrim, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source
I welcome the witnesses and thank them for attending. I have a number of questions. The witnesses have provided with the figures on the allocations for mental health funding. I live in the CHO 1 region, which includes Sligo, Leitrim, Donegal, Cavan and Monaghan. The figure for that area is €73.6 million. Can the witnesses give a breakdown of this per county and per the different services in the region? Also, is the funding for CHO areas linked to population? What are the reasons for the CHO 1 region being the lowest funded in the country, considering its size and geographical spread?
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