Responses to parliamentary questions
Question from Deputy Sorca Clarke - PQ 72128-25
Deputy Clarke asked about people presenting to emergency departments with mental-health crises. Read the HSE response.
From: Communications and public affairs
Published: December 2025
Updated: February 2026
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Question from Deputy Sorca Clarke - PQ 72128-25
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Summary
To ask the Minister for Health the number of people presenting to emergency departments with mental-health crises each month; the average wait time to be seen by a mental-health professional; and the measures being introduced to improve emergency mental-health pathways; in each of the past five years, in tabular form.
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