Ms Fiona Coyle:

Yes. For Mental Health Reform and, I am sure Dr. Keogh would agree, for Mental Health Ireland, the voice of service users is key to what we do. Mental Health Reform has a grassroots forum comprising service users, their families, friends and carers with whom we engage on policy positions. We also frequently engage openly with the general public. Our pre-budget submission has been informed by more than 300 individual submissions by service users and their families and carers. It is important to thank them for that. The detail and richness of the responses we received are very enriching. The Senator will note the quotes in the submission. We have sent in a budget submission and the quotes are probably the most powerful part of it. We also mentioned My Voice Matters survey, the first of its kind in Ireland, in which service users were asked for their thoughts on the types and quality of services they were receiving, and we sent that on. That was done in 2019. We try to ensure service users are at the heart of everything we do and our members assist us in that process. Mental Health Ireland has great knowledge and experience of co-production in what it does.