Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 16 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE

1:30 pm

Ms Anne O'Connor:

If I can clarify, the specialist mental health service budget is what it is. What Mr. Sullivan is referring to is the many other services that provide services to people with mental health difficulties as well. We do not capture that as part of the specialist mental health service budget when somebody with a mental health difficulty goes to a GP or goes to an acute hospital. However, in terms of the core budget that exists for specialist mental health services, that remains intact as a dedicated budget.

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