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Local TD hits back at claims Budget doesn't do enough to address mental health services

Oct 15, 2025 17:40
By Shannonside News
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Local TD hits back at claims Budget doesn't do enough to address mental health services
Martin Daly

Fianna Fáil's Martin Daly was responding to comments made by a Longford-Westmeath Sinn Féin TD this week.

A local TD has hit back at claims the Budget doesn't do enough to address mental health services. Fianna Fáil's Martin Daly was responding to comments made by a Longford-Westmeath Sinn Féin TD this week. Sorca Clarke, who's her party's spokesperson for mental health, accused the Government of engaging in a 'box ticking exercise'.

She says the mental health budget will not address gaping inadequacies in mental health services. Roscommon-Galway TD and local GP Martin Daly says the investment is there:

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