Mr. Jim Ryan:

With me are Dr. Brendan Doody, clinical director, Linn Dara child and adolescent mental health service and Dr. Amir Niazi, national clinical advisor group lead. We appreciate the opportunity to come before the committee this morning.

The committee will have received our statement. Our role is to provide services across the Twenty-six Counties, including community, day, acute and long-term care. Covid-19 has had a significant impact on all of our services, as it has had on all health services. We have learned that we have a resilient and committed staff and we have adapted well, given the circumstances. The lessons we have learned have been taken on board and we see the challenges the Mental Health Commission and the regulator have outlined to us, which we would share. It is something we need to plan for in the future.