Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Tuesday, 18 April 2023
Joint Committee On Health
Life Cycle Approach to Mental Health: Discussion
Mr. Mervyn Taylor:
-----six new health boards. It is a reorganisation of the HSE but there is an opportunity for integrating acute and community services and, within that, I hope, mental health, within the HSE. Where are the GPs and pharmacies, the citizens groups and the self-help, mental health and independent advocacy groups? They are somewhere in the corner of the PowerPoint slide, to put it politely. That is a problem. When established, each of the regional health authorities will have a CEO who will report to a CEO, Mr. Bernard Gloster. Currently, there is no structure in which people can ask this question of the regional health authority in which they live. That is one of the democratic deficits. I do not mean everybody is going to vote as to whether there is going to be a knee surgeon in Ardee; that is not the issue.
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