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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: On behalf of the joint committee, I thank the witnesses for their presentations today and dealing with members' questions in a comprehensive manner.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank the witnesses for their presentation. I am going to question Mr. Sullivan in respect of a line on page 2 of the HSE's written submission. It states, "This is in line with government policy and aligns with the recommendations of the recent Oireachtas Report, Sláintecare, which refers to the need for the HSE to be re-oriented to a more strategic leaner ‘national...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Is Mr. Sullivan saying that the Minister, Deputy Simon Harris, signed off on the restructuring?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: So was it the director general?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Perhaps Mr. Healy could answer that for me.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: That brings me to my next question. I appreciate that Mr. Sullivan is new in the role. The discussion and everything else were had but then the direction had to come. Where did the direction come from?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: The direction for the restructuring. The direction had to come from somebody. Somebody had to sign the piece of paper and say that the HSE is changing how it does business.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: So it was the HSE. That would have been signed off by Tony O'Brien at the time.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: That is okay. I just wanted to find out exactly where that decision was made. That brings me to my next question, and Deputy Neville has covered much of it. Will there be a dedicated national mental health budget, separate from the HSE general budget?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Who is responsible for it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: The witness knows we had the chief officers before the committee.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: They provided us with 600 pages of paper on everything, right down to buying the tea bags. However, when it came to asking them questions on the day we found it very hard to get answers because people could not get through them. They told us that the reason so many pages were required is that the ICT system was not such that they could provide us with the information that was required to...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: How long is it since the change was made from community health boards to CHOs?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Usually, someone who sets up a new business and wishes to seek a loan would have to have financial trading accounts for 18 months. That is how it would be done. Those organisations are trading for 36 months so I should have three lots of accounts. Why do I not have something?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: I have a final question for Ms O'Connor. What percentage of the overall health budget goes to mental health? What is it for 2015, 2016 and 2017? I am not looking for the breakdown.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Will she explain the statement that since 2013 mental health expenditure has increased from €709 million to €867 million, an increase of 22%? I am trying to work that out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: What was the mental health budget for 2017?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: What percentage was it of the overall budget?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: What was it in 2016?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: It is nearly misleading when one sees 22%. In fact, the overall budget for mental health is 6%.