Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 2 October 2019

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Quarterly Meeting on Health Issues: Discussion

Ms Anne O'Connor:

The Deputy is correct that 114 came in. I do not know the details on who cancelled sessions but I do know that there is a review of the initiative being undertaken by the University of Limerick. We hope to have the final report soon, around now. The initiative was very different when we started with it. There were different views on bringing in assistant psychologists. We brought in 20 staff-grade psychologists at the time. We have conducted a full review with the university to determine how the initiative has worked and to learn from whether we should expand it or operate differently. I will have the results in the coming weeks.