Jimmy Devins (Sligo-North Leitrim, Fianna Fail)

The office will be built around the existing Department of Health and Children staff who deal with disability and mental health. An existing director at the Department of Health and Children, Ms Bairbre nic Aonghusa, has been appointed to head up the new office and she has already taken her place so the office is operational. I intend to visit, and have visited, various voluntary bodies, both service users and providers, around the country. I have found it enormously informative and the office will track the money allocated to the HSE as it disburses it around the areas of disability and mental health.

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