Question from Deputy Sorca Clarke - PQ 48526-26

To ask the Minister for Health the number of additional consultant psychiatrists, psychiatry registrars, clinical psychologists, mental health nurses, social workers, occupational therapists, peer support workers and other specialist mental health professionals required to ensure that every acute hospital has the full complement of staff necessary to deliver safe and timely mental health emergency care; the estimated annual cost of recruiting and retaining such staff; and if she will provide a hospital-by-hospital breakdown. -Sorca Clarke