Universities in Ireland have spent more than €6.7 million providing mental health services for students over the past two years, with a majority of universities having increased spending in the area compared to previous years.
The university’s average wait time for an initial assessment appointment has also increased, from 9.6 working days in 2020-2021, to 15 days in the 2021-2022 academic year. But the waiting list for a follow-up counselling appointment reduced from an average of 40 working days to 31 working days.
The total number of students in TCD who availed of counselling in 2021-22 was 2,976, and 2,169 in the 2022-23 period. Maynooth University spent €971,000 on the provision of mental health services during the past two academic years, seeing a total of more than 3.600. Maynooth “does not operate waiting lists for appointments” and students are “given the next available appointment time, which varies from week to week”, it said.Technological University Dublin spent €1.39 million on mental health services in two years. A total of 1,194 students accessed mental health services in TUD in 2021-22 and 974 in 2022-23.
University of Limerick spent €706,394 over the two academic years on mental health services and reduced its average waiting period from 22 days in 2021-22 to “no waiting list” in the past year.
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