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:

IT is at a very basic operational level. As Ms Magaharan alluded to earlier, we have to get pen and paper out to record how many illnesses we have and how many kids we have seen. We cannot press a button to do that. We do not have a system that records every input, output and every medication a child should be on, which we should have. What Dr. Murtagh spoke about sounds beautiful. I would love to have a system like that.