Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 22 September 2021

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health

Mental Health Services: Discussion

Photo of Frances BlackFrances Black (Independent)
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I am flying through my questions because I want to get through as many of them as I can. The witnesses said effective leadership would be key to driving the rebuilding of mental health services and that for that reason, they strongly believed that a dedicated lead for mental health needed to be created within the HSE. The HSE appeared before the Joint Sub-Committee on Mental Health yesterday to discuss the closure of the Owenacurra Centre in Cork, which is a wonderful service.

Can one of the representatives from Mental Health Reform elaborate on what it envisages in the context of this lead person? What is its thinking is on that?