Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

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

Ms Rosemary Smyth:

From our monitoring of sites we have a fairly good oversight of it.

Initially, when we started our risk assessment only 25% of services could provide single room accommodation. In fairness, the HSE moved rapidly on this and within a very short period the majority of services were able to provide single room accommodation.

On the current status, with the exception of three, all inpatient approved centres have the ability to isolate up to two people. Due to reconfiguration only one service is not able to do that. Every approved centre out there at the moment has that capacity to isolate.