Contents:
About Budget 2025
I Am A Reason Video
Contact your TD
Pre-Budget Campaign Launch
Get Involved
1. About Budget 2025
Together with our 85 member organisations, Mental Health Reform call on the Government to invest an additional €120 million in our mental health services for Budget 2025. This includes:
€40 million to maintain existing services,
€80 million to develop new services that will drive change in the system.
Funding is essential to progress the implementation of our national mental health policy Sharing the Vision, to support early intervention and prevention, and to improve access to mental health services for communities across Ireland.
This is the final year in the current programme for government and our last opportunity to secure adequate investment for mental health before the general election. This event is an opportunity for us to come together and urge the Government to make mental health a priority for Budget 2025.
People with mental health difficulties cannot afford to wait any longer.
The Budget 2025 announcement is just weeks away and we need your support. We have teamed up with Uplift to create a template email with all the information your TD needs about why Government must act now and invest in mental health.
Read our Pre-Budget Submission to the Government, which outlines our key asks for Budget 2025.
To read our Pre-Budget Submission document, click here.
To read our summary document, click here.
2. I Am A Reason Video
3. Contact your TD
The Budget 2025 announcement is just weeks away and we need your help.
Please email your TDs to make sure mental health is not forgotten in Budget 2025.
It takes less than 2 minutes and can make a big difference!
4. Pre-Budget Campaign Launch
On the 30th of July we launched our I Am A Reason campaign at a virtual launch. The online event brought together politicians, people with mental health difficulties, and organisations in the sector who discussed opportunities to strengthen mental health services in Budget 2025.
Speakers included:
- Fiona Coyle, CEO, Mental Health Reform
- Rebecca O’Brien, Mental Health Reform Grassroots Forum Member
- Dr Michelle Clifford, HSE National Clinical Lead for Eating Disorders
- Nicola Coss, National Service Development Manager, ADHD Ireland
- Seán Moynihan, CEO. ALONE
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5. Get Involved
There are many ways you can join our campaign to help make mental health a national priority in Budget 2025.
- Contact your TD with Uplift
- Download our images below and use our sample posts for your social media page
- Re-share our social media posts
- Join the conversation with #IAmAReason #Budget2025
- Donate to MHR so we can continue to advocate for improved mental health services
- Sign up to our newsletter for regular updates
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Sample social media post
“Mental Health Reform recently launched its #IAmAReason campaign which calls on the Government to invest an additional €120M in Ireland’s mental health services in #Budget2025.
Email your local TDs to ask them to invest in our mental health services 👇
https://action.uplift.ie/campaigns/email-your-tds-about-mental-health-supports-in-budget-2025″
