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

Photo of John BrassilJohn Brassil (Kerry, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I would appreciate it if Mr. Ryan would send on the link directly.

I wish to make one last point. All of us have come across examples of people who get into the system, get treated, get well and then relapse. By and large, the experience is that such people go right back to the start of the system they have already been through. It is frustrating because they can finish up but find it difficult to get back to the place where they were treated and got well the previous time. Work needs to be done to look at how people who have had previous history and a different starting point can return. CAMHS has experience. This is what I find when dealing with constituents. They may be going great. Then, they come to me and ask to get back to X, Y or Z, who got them right. However, for the person to get to that point, he or she has to go through a big long rigmarole and that is frustrating. That would be useful.

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