Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 14 July 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

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

Mr. John Farrelly:

I do not know. We inputted into the structure with regard to the vulnerable person. There was a fair bit of feeding in from professionals who understand mental health. Now the context is about getting ready again when we know we have a service, which I really want to reiterate. I would not want that to get lost. I appreciate that the mental health of the nation and individuals is important, but within this there are highly vulnerable people with mental illness who really need to get the services. For me, these are the people on whom I want the HSE to concentrate in building the service for people with mental illness.