694. Deputy Billy Timmins asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the chairman's forward to the Mental Health Commission annual report 2013. in which he states that, since 2007, staffing in mental health services has been reduced by the implementation of recruitment embargoes and employment moratoriums; the medium and long-term effect of such policies is to endanger the delivery of confident and responsive community-based services as envisaged in A Vision for Change; this situation needs to be reversed by the continued allocation of new revenue for the full development of community mental health teams and concomitant services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29202/14]

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694. Deputy Billy Timmins asked the Minister for Health the position regarding the chairman's forward to the Mental Health Commission annual report 2013. in which he states that, since 2007, staffing in mental health services has been reduced by the implementation of recruitment embargoes and employment moratoriums; the medium and long-term effect of such policies is to endanger the delivery of confident and responsive community-based services as envisaged in A Vision for Change; this situation needs to be reversed by the continued allocation of new revenue for the full development of community mental health teams and concomitant services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [29202/14]

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