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

Ms Sonia Magaharan:

It was initiated because I had worked with the Brothers of Charity previously, which had provided CAMHS, and they were paid by the HSE. I and a couple of my nursing colleagues were in those teams and we initiated that because we had no direct nursing line manager then. We worked under a CEO but there was no nursing discipline in the service, so we set it up as a peer support mechanism.