Taskforce for youth mental health to get green light

A new youth mental health task force is to be signed off on at the Cabinet breaks for the summer today.

Cabinet is also expected to rubber-stamp plans for a separate taskforce to ensure people with disabilities are given a say in how money is spent on services they use.

The taskforce on youth mental health will include high-profile celebrity advocates and representatives of social media and broadcast media and will be chaired by Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People Helen McEntee.