Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 March 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE

Ms Anne O'Connor:

Yes, completely. I am very passionate about mental health and my clinical background is in mental health. We will not get where we need to be unless it is integrated into health services and unless we have equal access at a primary care level to mental health supports and our specialist mental health services work like that for people who are in need of tertiary specialist mental health services. We have done a lot of good work but there is a long way to go. As we roll out Sláintecare, and as we look at the needs of populations, we have to build in that early intervention and early access to promote the mental health of the population.

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