Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 7 March 2018
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care
Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed)
1:30 pm
Mr. Martin Varley:
It is an average figure across the country or regions. The cost of living differences are based on published accounting data. They are not our data. On data for comparative price levels, for Canada there is a figure of 94, with Ireland being at 100. The United Kingdom is at a figure of 92 and the United States, 87. These are monthly OECD comparative price levels. We are using independent data which have been appropriately adjusted having taken the cost of living, inflation and everything else into account.