James Browne (Wexford, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I want to raise the Health Research Board, HRB, statistics on psychiatric units and hospitals. It may be a bit of a quirk but in the 2018 HRB report, in respect of admissions for children and adolescents, it is stated that while its statistics are in respect of every child under the age of 18, the Mental Health Commission is restricted by the 2001 Act and only includes children under 18 who are not married. It must be somewhat unhelpful to be putting statistics together when different arms of healthcare within the State are using different metrics, aside from the fact that it would seem quite anomalous and somewhat archaic and something that should be changed at this stage.