Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 27 March 2013

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Social Protection

Whole-School Approaches to Mental Health and Bullying: Discussion

2:20 pm

Ms Róisín Webb:

Absolutely not. The Children's Mental Health Coalition received its funding from Amnesty International's mental health campaign. We are not funded by government in any way. Jigsaw may have received funding. I do not know if Headstrong received funding from the additional €34 million allocation. I can, however, say that the €34 million was not spent in that year. There was a net reduction in mental health spending in 2012. In reality, the ring-fencing of that budget has not happened on the ground.