Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 11 July 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care

Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health

1:30 pm

Photo of Joan FreemanJoan Freeman (Independent)
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The Minister and Minister of State are speaking about telepsychiatry, updating information technology, access and so forth. Given that the HSE has not got basic computers and programme software right, I do not understand how telepsychiatry services can be promised.

I keep referring to scripts being provided to the Department by the HSE. We heard about money but where is it being spent? It is not reaching the front line. We need to be told where it is going before we produce the report.