Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 March 2022

Joint Committee On Health

General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Discussion (Resumed)

Dr. Imelda Whyte:

We all work on multidisciplinary teams here and the four consultant psychiatrists here are the clinical leads for our teams. Part of our training is very much around leadership. We have a specific set of clinical skills and our various team members all have their own unique set of skills and unique backgrounds. It is when all that comes together that a multidisciplinary is working at its best and its richest because it has multiple perspectives on a particular situation and a particular patient with particular struggles. That is how we get the best result.

I think Deputy Hourigan is probably referencing the situation in south Kerry-----