Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Dr. Joseph Duffy:

I will start taking some of the questions, if that is okay, and then my colleague, Dr. Gillian O'Brien, might answer some more. I thank the Deputy for her comments. On the expansion of Jigsaw, we are working closely with the HSE. Some members of the committee may know that the initial model in Jigsaw was based on philanthropy, which was then matched by HSE funding. Jigsaw services are now predominantly funded through HSE supports. We are working with the HSE to develop a plan for the next number of years and it is currently carrying out an evaluation of the Jigsaw services. We would love to be able to expand further and to develop. We have done some work ourselves on how we would expand into the areas and how we would make those decisions, because we would love to see Jigsaw across all of the counties and across all the country but we need a plan in place for that. We are working closely with the mental health division to develop that.

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