Fintan Warfield (Sinn Fein)
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That is interesting. I commenced work on so-called gay conversion therapy and believed the practice was apparent just in rogue groups, some north of the Border and some within the Catholic Church. To my horror, there was a Trinity College Dublin report on negative experiences of mental health services among LGBT people. Obviously, there are lingering effects from criminalisation and homosexuality being in the diagnostic manual until approximately 1973. I wanted to get a sense of whether we should prioritise the recruitment of Travellers to be mental health professionals or the training of health professionals.

From my experience, there may be people within the mental health services who have never gone through retraining or upskilling. Is it too late when they are already with the HSE for this? Is there constant retraining or is it too late after their education to-----