Mental Health Reform says just 5% of the health budget goes to mental health.
Ireland spends less than half what the World Health Organisation recommends on mental health.
Mental Health Reform says around 5 per cent of the health budget goes on psychiatry - while the W-H-O suggests 12 per cent.
It will tell the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health, on which sits Kildare North Fine Gael TD, Bernard Durkan, that government should increase that to 10 per cent in next month's Budget.
Professor of psychiatry in Trinity College Dublin, Brendan Kelly, says extra investment's badly needed.
Watch LIVE as The Joint Committee on Health is meeting with @MHReform @MentalHealthIrl to discuss significant need for investment in mental health and how to respond to the increased need for service provisions. #seeforyourselfhttps://t.co/OM4LMASdeV https://t.co/SQg91drHRE
— Houses of the Oireachtas - Tithe an Oireachtais (@OireachtasNews) September 22, 2021
€10 million allocated for better mental health services during Covid has remained unspent.
Advocates say it comes as Ireland’s mental health supports are seriously under funded.
Paul O’Donoghue reports from the Oireachtas health committee.
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