Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 18 April 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Health Service Capacity Review: PA Consulting

9:00 am

Mr. Chris Nightingale:

We believe they are close. We do not think the addition of other resources would change the numbers. Additional resources such as mental health beds, mental health capacity or mental health nurses would be additive to the requirements of the system. The addition of mental health beds would not necessarily have a big impact on the resources at which we have already looked. The resources at which we have looked have been in their totality and the round. We would not expect those numbers to vary hugely if we were to look at other areas of the system.