Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Non-Covid Healthcare Disruption: Mental Health Services (Resumed)

Dr. Susan Finnerty:

We have recommenced inspections today. We will be looking very carefully at services where training is difficult for them to do in light of Covid-19. We have found over the years that it is extremely difficult for the services to release staff to do training, even in terms of mandatory training. Matters have improved over the years but we are still not at 100% and, obviously, this year we will certainly not be at 100%. We will take into account, as Ms Smyth said, the fact that people cannot do face-to-face contact and do training in a group setting.