Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 18 January 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

Community Health Care Organisations: Discussion

10:00 am

Mr. Tony Canavan:

We have gone through a period of constant excess demand for the beds. We seem to have got on top of that demand over the past three years and manage it better. That indicates there is a better balance between the need for inpatient beds and the number of beds available. It is difficult to say definitively whether that is adequate. At present, there is a good match between the demand for the beds and the number of beds available.