Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 10 March 2022

Public Accounts Committee

Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020

9:30 am

Mr. Stephen Mulvany:

In our service plan for 2022, there is a specific provision of €10 million, increasing to €20 million in a full year, for improving access specifically to medical card holders. As I understand, our primary care colleagues are working with the Department to finalise how those aspects would be built into the scheme, as well as the rules around the scheme. That is a work in progress.