Oireachtas Committees
Dail Éireann — 2026-07-09
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Jennifer Murnane O'Connor (FF), Carlow-Kilkenny

Again, I have to disagree with the Deputy on that. We had a total of 15,422 cases in treatment, so we are doing work and that message needs to get out there. I visit the services around the country. I know we need to do more. The Minister and I are very mindful that we always need to put more funding into services but there are services there. As I said, there are challenges too but we are providing services. This is about everyone working together and about a health referral scheme that will give people the option to look at that. We have nine SAOR HSE workers who have been appointed across the country who will be working with this. So much work is being done on this. While this particular recommendation was the focus, I went through most of the 161 recommendations with my Department. As I said, some of the recommendations relate to other Departments. There is work being done, we are working with the committee’s recommendations and we are working with other services. My Department, the Minister and I waited so we could work with everybody. We will not get everything but at least we are working on health referral scheme. That is the way it will be.

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