Eugene Murphy (Roscommon-Galway, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I return to the issue of mental health services . The Inspector of Mental Health Services has made a damning comment on where we are with the services . There has been little or no improvement in the past ten years. The special inquiry in Roscommon made 27 recommendations. My information is that, to date, very few of the recommendations have been put in place. It is also the case that 10,000 people self-harmed last year. The figure includes only those who turned up at hospitals; others do not turn up. When will we take mental health services iseriously and deal with the crisis on our doorstep? The improvement is minimal. We need to take this matter very seriously.

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