Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

I thank the Deputy. I will answer the governance and oversight question first and then ask my colleague Ms Anne O'Connor to deal with some of the lists and correlations he referred to.

I understand the Deputy's frustration as an Oireachtas Member, parliamentary representative and local representative in relaying some of the figures that he set out that cause him frustration. I will briefly describe - I do not want to over-labour this point - the circumstances related to oversight of all our services. The executive management team reports to our board setting out not only the targeted objectives in our corporate plan but equally the targeted objectives in our national service plan every year. One of the strengthening processes that I, as CEO, put in place with the executive team is one whereby, on a monthly basis, we report monthly to the board with a national scorecard for every aspect of our national service plan, every aspect of all targets in the national service plan, our progress and the issues and risks in respect of each of the targets. That is new and different. I reassure the Deputy that it is not just about oversight in respect of Covid over the past two years. Throughout the process and since 2019, we have had very strong oversight of all aspects of our services, including mental health services, and direct reporting on a scorecard related to CAMHS. I just wanted to give that general assurance. I ask my colleague, Ms O'Connor, to give some of the specifics.

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