Colette Kelleher (Independent) | Oireachtas source

I thank the witnesses for their presentation. The HSE's operational plan for 2017 states that its vision is to support the population to achieve its optimal mental health and that its mission is to promote and protect the mental health of the population, to provide effective services to those who need them, making best use of existing resources, and to seek to continuously improve those services, making best use of the resources available. The HSE has set five goals, which include reducing loss of life by suicide, integrated services, timely services, the views of the people the HSE is there to serve, mainly those who are seeking support with mental health issues, and trained and engaged staff. My question is a simple one and it relates to a budget. How would the witnesses rate the HSE's delivery out of ten against that mission, that vision and those goals to which I have just referred? In capital terms, what budget does the HSE need in order to get to ten out of ten for people?