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

Ms Rashimi:

The perception is that we cannot say it to another person due to fear of the consequences and because we do not know how the person would react to hearing it and we do not know what they would do. It is something we feel that we cannot share with someone. If an undocumented person is in the sort of space where he or she might want to open up to another person there is this thing over his or her head. It affects us because we cannot talk about it and it undermines the whole process of being there.