Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 24 January 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care
Community Health Care Organisations: Discussion (Resumed)
1:30 pm
Chairman:
You are being really clear and concise and I appreciate that. I have two brief questions and then I will pass on to Deputy Buckley.
Ms Walshe stated she is responsible for the overall budget. When she allocates money towards children's mental health services, does she make the decision? On what is it based? Is it based on an assumption of having three child consultant psychiatrists in a given year? How do you allocate funding? If is the worst-looked-after area in all our mental health services, why is the allocation of funding so poor?