Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 8 December 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters

Decongregation of Mental Health Settings: Mental Health Commission

Mr. John Farrelly:

We do not regulate the community services in south County Dublin, so we do not get a chance to look and tell what is there. With the inpatient centres, we can tell the staff and tell against all of the regulations. Generally speaking, from looking at things, we have a medical model in Ireland. Generally speaking, from doing the different reports and rehabilitation and from going out into the community, we see a medically focused model. We do not see it expanded in the way the Senator describes. In the private services, one sees much more cognitive behavioural therapy and so forth, which one does not see in the public services.

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