Covid-19 Impacting On mental Health Services

The country's inadequate mental health service is straining under the pressure caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.

That's according to Mental Health Reform, which will appear before the Oireachtas sub-committee on mental health today.
It will say the child and adolescent mental health service is 40 per cent under-staffed, with over 2,000 kids waiting for their first appointment.