Director announcement an ‘embarrassing gaffe’

Kathleen Lynch, the mental health minister, yesterday had to be corrected after she mistakenly announced a new director for mental health services had been appointed.

Director announcement an ‘embarrassing gaffe’

The Labour minister told Newstalk that Stephen Mulvany had been appointed as the new national director.

“He is... one of the regional directors in the HSE, very experienced guy... knows — and as I said from the very start — they need to know both the system and the service, and he does,” said Ms Lynch.

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