Ms Ber Grogan:

To bring it back to the cyber attack, I looked at the parliamentary questions asked just before the summer recess and found that 106 mentioned mental health. Obviously, I did not count them. The information is provided on the Oireachtas website. It seems that it was not possible to answer most of them so there is a significant dearth of information there. Obviously, we are not linking in in that way with the HSE but, again, in respect of our Brave New Connections project that involved looking at our members, 58 out of the 77 members completed the survey. More than 90% of them said that Covid had meant more emphasis on supporting the staff. Mental Health Reform did a piece with the National Women's Council because women are disproportionately represented in front-line work so there is that gender aspect. We have seen that community and voluntary services are putting things in place such as employee assistance programmes, supervision and attempts to support their staff in terms of mental health, so we hope this is echoed in the front line.

Regarding the training of the nurses and staff we need, looking at Sharing the Vision and the services to which we wish to move, we are talking about occupational therapists and speech and language therapy so we must again join the dots in respect of the type of mental health services we want. We are talking about tenancy sustainment officers in housing. This is one of the reasons I have requested meetings with many different Ministers not just the Minister for Health or the Minister of State, Deputy Butler. We have been reaching out this year to Ministers and Members across the board to talk about that cross-Government need for investment in mental health and not just leaving it all to the Minister of State with responsibility for mental health.