Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 May 2023

Joint Committee On Health

Life Cycle Approach to Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed)

Ms Sarah Hughes:

The USI probably has an easier job than others. Within the HEA, there is a subsection of Healthy Ireland called Healthy Campuses. Healthy campus charters are being rolled out on campuses nationwide, to which the national mental health and suicide prevention framework is linked, and there is a specific staff member within the HEA whom we work closely with in that respect. All of our funding and so forth in that regard comes through the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the HEA. I mentioned the great Connecting for Life working group, which brings stakeholders together from the HSE and the Department of Education and has proven fruitful in recent years.

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