Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 19 November 2025
Select Committee on Health
Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Health (Supplementary)
2:00 am
Sorca Clarke (Longford-Westmeath, Sinn Fein)
I want to ask one last question in the area of mental health and the failure of services to meet the needs of service users. The document we were provided states that the north west performs well. That is a direct quote. The Minister of State will be aware of an individual who was profoundly unwell with his mental health. An Garda Síochána had raised serious concerns about this individual. I understand he had held his mother at knifepoint. Due to the failure of the mental health service, that individual went on to take the life of another. That was almost eight years ago. No proper report was carried out at the time. A report was meant to be completed this July but there is still no sign of it. Has that report been completed? Will the Minister of State make it available to the family of the young man who lost his life at the hands of an individual who was just exceptionally ill?
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