Tom Neville
Question:396. Deputy Tom Neville asked the Minister for Health the amount of spending on mental health initiatives or services for each of the past five years; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43381/18]
View answerTuesday, 23 October 2018
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The amount of funding allocated to mental health services for the last five years was:
2018 €910.6m,
2017 €852.1m,
2016 €826.6m,
2015 €791.8m,
2014 €766m.
HSE Mental Health Division spent the following amounts over this period:
2018 €910.6m (projected),
2017 €860.2m,
2016 €825m,
2015 €785.4m,
2014 €735.8m.
These figures do not include funding for mental health services provided by other Departments such as the Department of Justice, Equality & Law Reform. This funding has enabled improvements and enhancements of mental health services, which continue to be a priority for the Government. Examples include:
- Improvements to mental health service infrastructure.
- The enhancement of Community Teams for CAMHS, General Adult and Psychiatry of Later Life.
- The new Children’s Hospital and the National Forensic Hospital will see an additional 30 beds bringing the total number of inpatient beds for CAMHS to 106 in 2021.
- The addition of 20 psychologists, 114 assistant psychologists, 10 ANPs and 130 psychiatric undergraduate nurse places. These will help to alleviate waiting lists and improve the delivery of children’s mental health services nationally.
- Development of clinical programmes on self-harm, eating disorders, and perinatal with a further three models of care being designed on dual diagnosis, ADHD in adults and early intervention in psychosis.
- The continued development of counselling services across both primary and secondary care, including the provision of Jigsaw youth mental health services in 13 locations nationwide.
- Continued roll out of a seven-day-a-week service for all CHOs, The further development of 24-hour Mental Health Service is being considered in light of the evidence coming from the implementation of the seven-day-a-week service in relation to demand for out-of-hours services and staffing needs for this. It is envisaged that all CHOs will have some level of seven-day-a-week cover by Quarter 1, 2019.