Ms Yvonne O'Neill:

On mental health services, I will link some earlier questions on the population modelling in mental health services. A couple of years ago we took an approach working with our population health colleagues and international deprivation modelling where we actually applied a resource allocation adjusted for deprivation and rurality to the mental health funding, which recognised the types of issues that the Deputy is pointing to. For example, the Deputy’s area of community healthcare organisation, CHO 7, would have had a huge population increase and some very specific deprivation-related increase need that resulted in increased allocation for mental health services in CHO 7. We have done that over a number of years since 2015. Where we receive new funding, we try to orient it towards what we know is imbalance in relation to population-based available services. We try to raise all boats to the same level where we can and account for anomalies. That has resulted in some particular additional funding for CHO 7 services within the available overall allocation that comes to us annually.