Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 5 April 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Future Funding of Higher Education: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Michael Ryan:

It is a broader point and relates to both. The trends in mental health and health generally in WHO statistics and so on are that lifestyle-related issues are becoming the predominant challenges, pandemic aside, to mental health. The response has to incorporate a much stronger upskilling of people to self-manage, build resilience and learn how to manage their mental health more. It relates to the point about early intervention. If we teach people skills as early as we can to manage and improve their mental health, it will not stop everybody going to a more acute phase, but it will certainty help. That is what we mean by the recovery approach.

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