The Mental Health Reform CEO has urged the government to keep its promise to invest an additional € 10 million in mental health services as they have not yet been allocated and said they were concerned that they will be lost.
Speaking to RTÉ’s News, Fiona Coyle said there were more than 2,730 children waiting to be treated by mental health services.
She called for the creation of a senior director of mental health at HSE, reporting to the CEO who “is driving the reform needed to deliver the services people across the country deserve”.
She said the crisis is most evident in primary care, where more than 10,000 people are waiting for psychological appointments in primary care, half of whom have been there for more than a year, and it was a serious accumulation.
She said there were also long waiting lists for child and adolescent psychiatry.
She said the pandemic has exposed mental health deficiencies that need to be addressed and is calling on the government to fill that void in the next budget.
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