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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%.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: How is the HSE spending it?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Yes, but I am seeking the breakdown. I refer again to Deputy Neville's question, which was very succinct. Where is the difference in terms of improvement and development of existing services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Where is it being spent in the community? By community I mean the people of east Galway, but it is replicated across the country. For example, there was a community house with six patients in Athleague. On the weekend of Storm Ophelia the patients were moved to Castlerea and elsewhere and the house has closed since then. The Rosalie unit is in the process of closing down. In Portumna the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I have two supplementary questions. Earlier we spoke about early intervention. The last resource is CAMHS so every other intervention is before that. We are nearly six months into the new budget so what portion of the new mental health funding allocated by the Minister in that budget has been spent on other than existing resources? What is being spent on new projects? The money was...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I totally agree with Ms O'Connor and I do not dispute one thing she has said. In her statement Ms O'Connor said that the service is still spending the funding from 2017. Is the 2018 money that is in the pipeline going to be too late for some services that are trying to penny-pinch to get them through to the end of the year?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: Yes. On the issue of the same initiatives, what about the new groups that provide the services? As elected representatives, can we tell them to hang on, as it will get better next year or that because there may be a few euro coming next year, they can continue to provide the invaluable service they provide?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: I have one last question on dual diagnoses. I do not mean to say that it is a problem specific to Galway currently, but I refer to the issues for a child who has autism in my area. The Galway Autism Partnership, GAP, group, had come under the mental health services but must now change how it does business, perhaps because it is in the wrong space. There is a transition of moving the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)

Anne Rabbitte: There is a transition taking place, with some children never having had an assessment. There is concern, especially among the parents of sixth class children who are now going into first year, that their children have not received assessments.