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:

Yes. That was my next point. Many of the facilities are dormitory style with four, five and six-bed rooms. These were reconfigured, in a lot of situations, to accommodate social distancing. This, however, has an impact on other types of facilities such as therapeutic services because these areas were used to cohort patients.