Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 1 February 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

Mental Health Services: Discussion

2:00 pm

Photo of Marcella Corcoran KennedyMarcella Corcoran Kennedy (Offaly, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

We are trying to ensure we will consider everyone in need of mental health services. The more we learn at this committee, the more we realise we need to focus, for example, on ethnic minority groups, young people and people with dual diagnoses. In order to equip nurses to deal with everything involved, do they receive additional training if they need it or does it form part of their normal training?

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