Colm Keaveney (Galway East, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

10 o’clock

The Minister of State would like us to believe mental health decisions are not political and that, therefore, we cannot ask questions, but we live in a parliamentary democracy and I will hold her to account. On her response to Deputy Billy Kelleher's question, in the past two years the mental health budget was underspent by €70 million, which equates approximately to the budget for free GP care for children aged under six years.

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