Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 30 May 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

A Vision for Change: Engagement with Department of Health Oversight Group

5:30 pm

Mr. Hugh Kane:

We discussed this in great detail. Traditionally, a consultation process would start with an advertisement in a newspaper and written submissions would be made. We were particularly interested in hearing from people and their families who are in services and who have used services. This process is often not as accessible in the same way as access to professional groups. The idea behind going around the State is to invite people who are from that background, because it is important that we hear their voices and facilitate that discussion, along with others such as professional people, and other organisations and agencies that work in the area. We hope to consult based on our framework, to try to get some support and some grounded suggestions from people. We had our reference group meeting today and we plan to meet again in September. We will schedule to have these three meetings around the countryside to-----

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