Catherine Connolly (Galway West, Independent) | Oireachtas source

I wish to raise the issue of mental health services, which I have raised many times and which was raised earlier by Deputy Healy in the context of a specific area.

We have been through this conversation. We had A Vision for Change. It was to be reviewed. The Government set up an international review of literature. That took some time and it is over, and now a review is ongoing. When will it be completed? A Vision for Change was an excellent document. The difficulty was in its implementation, in addition to the abolition of the independent monitoring group that monitored its implementation and which sat for two three-year sessions. When will the review be completed? If the Government is seriously interested in providing proper services for people suffering from mental health difficulties, why would it not reinstate the independent implementation body?

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