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
Pat Buckley (Cork East, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I thank the Chairman. I will be brief. Mr. Mulvany thinks I have a vendetta against him, but I do not. The witnesses spoke earlier about the chief financial officer of each individual CHO. Is there a possibility that if there is harmony within the CHO, the two officers can set their own budgets and request additional development funding? What I am trying to get at is the following. If the two officers in a particular CHO decide they need extra funding which they wish to draw down through the development fund to staff a CAMHS unit fully and if they can encourage staff in, can it be done?
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