Macra news: Outrage at mental health funds transfer

Macra’s Rural Youth Committee has expressed outrage and disappointment that some of the €35m increase in funding for mental health services this year will be moved to other areas.

The funding will be transferred back in 2017, Health Minister Leo Varadkar has said, but Cara O’Mahony, chairwoman of the committee, said the move was disappointing.

“This action, in the face of the increasing work that’s being done to get people to open up about their mental health issues, pushes an important problem into the background,” she said.