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:

The Central Mental Hospital is the one building in Dundrum, as the Deputy is aware. We also have Usher's Island in the city centre and our prison in-reach staff go into the main prisons across the country. As a forensic service, we are national but the Central Mental Hospital is within one facility in Dundrum. As the Deputy is aware, we also opened a nine-bed unit as a response to Covid-19 in the new facility but we have since moved patients on from that.