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:
There is about €10 million of drugs within the mental health budget and the mental health spend. I would imagine that is largely the residential facilities. The vast bulk of mental health related drugs are prescribed in general practice or at least renewed there, issued in community pharmacies and paid for through the primary care reimbursement service. That is a further €80 million which is outside of the mental health budget which the members have laid out in front of them. If we added it to the mental health budget, it would bring it up by a further 9% or 10%.
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