Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed)

1:30 pm

Mr. Michael Walsh:

I am a very ordinary man doing an extraordinary job. I get to see children every day of the week who are very stressed or in crisis and I also get to see their families who are in crisis. I get to change some of that situation for a little period and, hopefully, the lives of the children will improve overall. That is what our job is and that is what we try to do. I love working with families day-to-day and enjoy my job. What detracts from my work is a dirty, rotten and cramp building that is not fit for purpose. Patients who suffer obsessive compulsive disorder, OCD, cannot touch the handles of the doors because they are dirty.