Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 5 July 2018

Public Accounts Committee

2017 Financial Statements of the HSE
2016 Annual Report of the Comptroller and Auditor General and Appropriation Accounts
Vote 38 - Department of Health

9:00 am

Mr. John Connaghan:

I do not have anything in my mind that gives me a ready comparator in terms of mental health spend in Ireland compared to other jurisdictions. Clearly, we need to live within that budget. We understand the service issues that give rise to budget pressures. I do not have anything I can relate to that outside Ireland which indicates that is a good or bad figure. It is clearly historical. I point to the significant increase in the mental health budget between 2016 and 2017. I have not worked out the percentage increase but it has been more than €60 million-----

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