Jackie Cahill (Tipperary, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

Mental health is an issue that we discuss frequently in this House, and rightly so. Drug use and addiction are two of the major contributory factors to mental health problems. In north Tipperary, we have a voluntary organisation, CARMHA Ireland, which offers a vital counselling service to a large number of clients. It is falling between two stools and is failing to get funding from the HSE. It will have to cease its operations very shortly. I ask the Taoiseach to direct the HSE to see what mechanism can be used to fund the voluntary organisations, such as CARMHA Ireland, so that it can continue to provide the vital counselling service that it offers to the people of north Tipperary.

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