Colette Kelleher (Independent) | Oireachtas source

That is encouraging and a good note to finish on. It is heartening to hear that the Minister of State, the Department and the HSE, which is the main delivery agency for health and mental health, all recognise the crisis and prioritise it. That will be judged by the actions that we take. As we wait for coroners, ethnic identifiers and such, people are dying, lives are being lost and families and communities are in crisis. We have no time to waste on this. We cannot afford complacency. I thank all of those who attended today, including Dr. Tierney, Dr. Keogh, Ms Mitchell from Mental Health Reform, as well as the witnesses from the Department of Health and the HSE. I am anxious that this report will stimulate action to address the crisis in Traveller mental health.

We will adjourn until 11 a.m. on Tuesday, 22 October 2019, when we will open our consideration of the topic of health.