Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael)
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Yes, I can. The national service plan will address how we spend €1 billion plus €26 million. It is not just the additional €39 million funding this year. There has been additional funding in the past five to six years of more than €300 million. There is significant funding to be allocated across the board and it is a case of how we do it and what we do, and doing it better. I have always tried to promote that. If we always do what we always did, we will always get what we always got. It is about finding new ways of allocating these moneys and looking at how we do what we do.

I will give the Chairman an absolute commitment that in the national service plan, I will be more than happy to consider the recommendations of the interim report from this committee vis-à-vis the allocation of €1 billion plus towards the support of mental health.