Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

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

Mr. Jim Ryan:

We have approved centre beds, long-term beds, and high, medium and low-support hospital beds. I do not have the figures for single occupancy. We have approximately 1,030 public approved centre beds. It is more than 2,000 when high-support and continuing care beds are taken into account. That is not mentioning medium and low-support beds. I do not have the detail for single occupancy. The majority of our new units, particularly on the approved centre sites, are single or double occupancy rooms. We have tried to eliminate multi-occupancy. Our latest unit in Lakeview, which is going to design stage, will be single occupancy.