Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 14 February 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care
Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed)
1:30 pm
Tom Neville (Limerick County, Fine Gael)
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Deputy Buckley and I are on the same wavelength in regard to stigma. It is hard to quantify stigma; it is intangible. That is the major difficulty with stigma. It is hard to write about the scale of stigma. Much work has been done and it has been talked about, yet it is still prevalent. We need to be mindful of that. I picked up on it in Dylan's contribution. Does he believe that the stigma he experiences is the result of the specific case he brought or does he feel that in his age group the stigma of mental health issues exists across the board? Does he think the stigma that he experienced and spoke about is equal to or greater than the stigma attaching to mental health?