John Gilroy (Labour) | Oireachtas source

Perhaps, but this is an issue we must address. I accept it may result in too many patients in one service but it is a good thing that more people would be seen by the better services. There is no method for knowing where are the good and bad practices.

I am rapporteur for suicide prevention on the Joint Committee on Health and Children. I will be bringing a report to the committee and to the Minister of State some time in the new year. Some of the recommendations will challenge existing presumptions on what is the best way forward. I know the Minister of State, as a reforming Minister, will be receptive to this report and I look forward to discussing it with her.

I could speak on the subject of mental health all day but it may be better to make those points I have made rather than trying to fit in 1 million points I would like to make. I ask the Minister of State to give me some of her thoughts on what I call the post code lottery in mental health services.