Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 9 May 2023

Joint Committee On Health

Life Cycle Approach to Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed)

Mr. Conor Boksberger:

They should not. I come from working in community spaces in local services. There is a variance in relationships I have held with other clinical leads in statutory services. There have been some good examples but it has been driven by the leads of the services and they have been quite nuanced. While we have documents such as the standard operating guidelines, which is useful, how they are interpreted and used can vary from community to community. We need to make sure that there is consistency in approach, that we are learning from where it is happening well and, as the Deputy said, that it is less dependent on individuals to make it happen.