Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Paul Reid:

I will make a couple of points before asking my colleague, Mr. Curran, who heads up our capital programme, to comment specifically on investment. The first thing to say is that our experience during the Covid pandemic was that congregated settings are not good, not just nursing homes but also disability and mental health settings.