This section contains information on our ongoing campaigns for improved mental health services. You can find out more about each campaign by clicking on the more information link beneath each description.
01 Prioritise Mental Health
Ireland's mental health expenditure has dropped from 13% in 1984 to just 7.3% of the national health budget in 2004. The coalition will be lobbying on Budget 2007, which it hopes will mark the turning point in the decades of erosion of mental health funding....
02 Implement A Vision for Change
In January 2006, A Vision for Change became the Government's policy on mental health. This report recommends significant changes and improvements in mental health services over a nine year period. However implementation of A Vision for Change has been painfully slow as demonstrated in successive reports....