Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 11 June 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Mental Health Bill 2024: Discussion
2:00 am
Manus Boyle (Fine Gael)
I thank everybody for coming in. It is really interesting and, to be honest, it is totally new to me. It is great to listen and learn from our guests, because they are the ones that are going through it. I only have a couple of quick questions because colleagues have already covered a lot. On the Garda project, what is being done in Limerick is brilliant and An Garda Síochána should be congratulated on it. Could a similar project be rolled out in another Garda divisions to show that it can work in another county? It works in Limerick and our guests have to be congratulated on it because it is a totally new way of patrolling and looking after people. It is a great positive and we should be shouting about it from the mountain tops. This takes a lot of people out of casualty and our guests are the first to be there to assess. What they have done is brilliant and I can only congratulate them. It is great that 50 gardaí wanted to do this. They got so involved in it and it is working. Are there any plans to roll it out in other areas?
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