Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Recently, at a Cabinet sub-committee meeting, the Minister of State with responsibility for mental health, Deputy Mary Butler, presented a comprehensive report on mental health services generally but also in respect of the impact of Covid. Generally speaking, services have been maintained at 90% or 95% throughout the Covid period, which is a great credit to all of the professionals and staff involved. Very significant additional funding has been secured by the Minister of State for the mental health budget. Following that meeting, we briefed the Deputy at a leaders' briefing meeting in respect of the information we had.

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