Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 November 2019
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health
Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion
Mr. John Farrelly:
This is just anecdotal. We have many consultant psychiatrists helping us in the tribunals. The leader is the consultant psychiatrist. Where there is a vacant post, teams tend not to build up as quickly. Those teams tend to build up where is a committed consultant. If they move on to something else, during the period they are not there, there is a tendency for the team to not do as well.