Seán Ó Fearghaíl
Ceist:68. Deputy Seán Ó Fearghaíl asked the Minister for Health the capital investment being made in mental health for 2025; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [34707/25]
Amharc ar fhreagraThursday, 26 June 2025
Ceisteanna (68)
Freagraí scríofa
In April, I announced a significant €31 million capital investment for mental health in 2025, the largest ever one-year allocation for mental health infrastructure. It forms part of the government’s broader commitment to delivering modern, fit-for-purpose mental health facilities, and it will ensure the development of facilities so that patients can access high-quality services in communities across Ireland.
Ongoing investment will allow us to continue to upgrade and develop new vital infrastructure, which in turn will ensure people experiencing mental ill-health can access services in safe, therapeutic and recovery-focused environments.
A range of projects in acute mental health, community services and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and specialist services such as Eating Disorders, are being progressed in 2025. Full details are available in the Health Capital Plan 2025. These include:
• major redevelopment of Adult Acute and Psychiatry of Later Life Units across the country.
• continued progress on facilities for CAMHS and community mental health services, within the provision of Primary Care Centres.
• ensuring the new Specialist Eating Disorders Hub at Mount Carmel Hospital in Dublin is commissioned and begins service.
• beginning the necessary feasibility and preparatory studies for Ireland’s first Mother & Baby Perinatal Mental Health Unit to be co-located with the new National Maternity Hospital.
The 2025 capital plan will also fund essential fire safety and ligature reduction works across inpatient units, and ongoing minor capital grants to support community mental health teams and voluntary mental health organisations. I am also engaging with the Minister for Public Expenditure, NDP Delivery and Reform on Capital Expenditure in relation to the National Development Plan 2025-2030.
Finally, a multi-annual mental health capital plan currently in preparation by the HSE.