To ask the Minister for Health if he will compile a comprehensive list of actionable areas to ensure that there is a transparent and robust approach towards mental health care by the State (Minister There are clear variations between the approaches adopted by the public mental health practice and that of private practice. Private practice adopts a much more holistic approach which looks at all of the environmental factors which are presented such as pain management, trauma, grief, the impacts of a disability etc. There is any amount of material from imminently qualified medical personnel, to validate this statement. We are after a tsunami of revelations to do with shortcomings in mental health care in the State, this last year alone and it is long overdue for Government, to adopt a much more proactive, authentic and accountable approach to minimise the significant impacts which failings in a number of areas of policy are having on people’s mental health.); and if he will make a statement on the matter.
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