Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

National visibility of financial information on mental health is a work in progress for the HSE. I will focus on what we can provide. By using our system of health accounts, we can say what the total spend is in each given year across the country. We can also tell the Deputy the total spend by LHO, as they were formerly, and by CHO, as they are now. The LHOs were smaller divisions. We can give that information. We can also identify who all our staff are. We can tell what the output is, including the clinical membership of each of our community teams, whether they are general adult, psychiatry of old age or child and adolescent teams. We cannot yet run a report that tells us all of those figures across every CHO on a push-of-a-button basis.

As the committee probably knows, investment in ICT for community services and mental health services has been significantly lacking in recent years. The same has been true in terms of financial information systems in the health service. Thankfully, we are now investing and have been supported to invest in our financial information systems and that will be rolled out over the next three or four years. My division is not waiting for that so work has been done to map the individuals on those various teams in order that, as part of the community costing project mentioned by Ms O'Connor, we can actually establish sufficient reporting capability. We are a year or so away from being able to do that readily. This does not mean that we cannot-----