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Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: Has Ms O'Connor a breakdown for each of the organisations?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: Ms O'Connor might tell us the age profiles. In Mayo, for example, Mindspace Mayo looks at 15- to 25-year-olds. That has been reduced now to 12- to 25-year-olds. I would like to get an understanding of what the HSE invests in.

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: Is that in the HSE budgetary accounts for 2020? If Ms O'Connor has the figures, I would appreciate them.

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: In terms of the oversight of that €46 million, does the HSE audit how that money is spent and allocated in each of the areas throughout the country in order to provide services within each of the CHOs?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: Does the HSE do audits?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: I will ask a question on the teams that are assembled around presentations to emergency departments. In Mayo University Hospital, for example, in 2020, there were 678 presentations. What teams are available within the emergency departments to cater for presentations of suicide or self-harm incidents?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

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Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: Excuse me. Is there bed capacity in each of these emergency departments for presentation as well?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: There is no service for the community of Mayo. If live in Belmullet, you have to go to Galway.

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: For adults presenting to Mayo University Hospital, are there dedicated bed units?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: My first question is to the Department. What is the status of the implementation of the national youth mental health pathfinder project?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: Where does it stand in the Department's priorities?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: Therefore Mr. Hempenstall has more or less said that it is not a priority really. Otherwise it would be a priority.

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: Is there a time line associated with it?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: Therefore it is just being discussed with no timeline. How many resources have been allocated to it?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: Who is driving this within the Department?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: It is Mr. Hempenstall. Is the Secretary General driving it? Is he aware of it?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: And we have no progress to date. That is a sad state of affairs. It is a very sad day if there has been no progress for five years on one of the key recommendations introduced by the Minister for Justice, Deputy McEntee, when she was Minister of State with responsibility for mental health. Has there been any update on the recruitment of national leads in each of the community organisations?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: Mr. Hempenstall is refusing to answer the question.

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Alan Dillon: Okay. Thank you Chair.