2026 FUNDING EXPLAINED · HEALTH
Additional crisis and suicide-prevention funding: where the money goes
Additional 2026 money targets crisis support and suicide prevention, including expanded nursing, community crisis and specialist services. It is an incremental measure within mental health funding.
This is a budget allocation, forecast or selected published measure, not an audited year-end outturn.
01 / UNDERSTAND THE ALLOCATION
What does this amount cover?
Additional 2026 money targets crisis support and suicide prevention, including expanded nursing, community crisis and specialist services. It is an incremental measure within mental health funding.
2026 published amount
Over €15m
Basis: additional 2026 allocation. This is recorded under health for navigation, but the programme's accounting scope may be narrower than the complete sector shown elsewhere.
Contained within Mental health services. The two figures must not be added together as separate costs.
02 / DEFINITIONS MATTER
Is this really what the State spent?
An allocation, not a receipt
This is a budget allocation, forecast or selected published measure, not an audited year-end outturn. A funding announcement does not confirm every euro was spent or that every announced measure was delivered.
Scope and overlap
This is new funding, not the entire mental health budget or an additional amount to sum with it. To construct a fully reconciled spending tree we would need the compatible underlying voted and non-voted expenditure returns.
Why this sits in Health
The programme is mapped to this sector so visitors can explore it alongside related public services, regardless of which government department currently administers it.
Getting to an outcome
Money allocated to a service should be considered alongside reported activity, eligibility, capacity and delivery targets. A larger budget alone cannot establish better results.
03 / KEEP EXPLORING
Related published funding amounts.
These are selected allocations connected by purpose, not an additive breakdown. Some are parts of others, and some are current, capital or additional Budget measures. Open each page to check the exact boundary.
04 / TRACE THE FIGURE
Official source and methodological limits.
Source document
Department of Health, Budget 2026 mental health announcement →. The amount is shown in the underlying document; Compound hosts its own explanation and navigation rather than embedding the source's charts.
Year: 2026. Basis: additional 2026 allocation. Displayed amount: Over €15m. Last verified: 2026-11-13.
This is new funding, not the entire mental health budget or an additional amount to sum with it. Published programme funding may differ from the sector total because of timing, accounting scope or transfers of functions. The selected amounts are not summed or subtracted to invent a remainder.