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

Mr. Peter Hughes:

Why can that not be resourced? It has been said there are resources. Here is an example of where we were told that we cannot do that at the moment until we create the seven-over-seven services. I still believe the two could be done in tandem. That is a start. Then people would look at these projects and say well at least we are going in the right direction toward comprehensive community services that do not finish at 5 p.m. If nurses in the UK and Australia see those type of developments, because they are working in those type of developments, they may be encouraged to come back. It might be enough to attract back some of those disenchanted graduate nurses getting paid the 85%.

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