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 number of quick comments to respond to the Deputy, if I may, and I will ask some of my colleagues to refer to the supports. I will deal specifically with where Ms O’Connor qualified this point earlier and where the Deputy states that we are reflecting that this issue is isolated to Kerry. That is the full reason we are doing the national audit, which is to give us assurance that it is just isolated to Kerry. It was highlighted there. Dr. Amanda Burke is here. She is a professional in the area and knows that it is not a prevalent issue, but we want to assure ourselves and that is why we are going on a national basis to work with the Minister on that. Specifically on the scope of the full and complete audit we are carrying out, we are finalising the details of that at the moment with the Minister in the next number of days and we will be able to speak further on that but Ms O’Connor can give a broader outline-----