Responses to parliamentary questions
Question from Deputy Ken O'Flynn - PQ 39106-26
Deputy O'Flynn asked about the effect of consultant psychiatry vacancies, agency dependency, and clinician turnover on mental health services.
From: Communications and Public Affairs
Published: May 2026
Updated: September 2026
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Summary
To ask the Minister for Health whether the Department or HSE has carried out any assessment of the relationship between consultant psychiatry vacancies, agency dependency, clinician turnover, and continuity of patient care within public mental health services.
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