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
Mr. Stephen Mulvany:
We have answered that question twice. It is €35 million. From the systems we have, we can break down the spend by county by total for mental health, by the different categories of non-pay expenditure, such as drugs, cleaning, washing and so on, and by the categories of pay expenditure. We can also say how many people are employed per county and what the output is against many performance indicators. We could fill the room with the data we have. The data which we do not have but we want relates to how to take a service view of that at a sub-specialty level. We are working on that. I would not want people to leave the meeting thinking that we do not have a lot of information about where the money goes, that we are not audited or that it is not accounted for because that would be unfair to the staff working in this area.
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