Waterford Fianna F\u00e1il TD and Minister for Mental Health, Mary Butler, said recruitment has begun to staff Jigsaw\u2019s newest branch in Waterford.<\/p>\n
Jigsaw is a youth mental health service with 16 branches across the country. The service saw a 23% increase in demand across 2025.<\/p>\n
In December, Minister Butler announced that a Waterford city-centre location will be opened, with \u20ac1 million ring-fenced for the project.<\/p>\n
The centre will be used as an outreach for West Waterford, South Kilkenny and South Wexford.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was achieved through close collaboration between Ivan Grimes of Waterford City & County Council and a co-operating individual from Waterford who was well placed to assist in the provision of a premises,\u201d said Minister Butler.<\/p>\n
\u201cI welcomed Jigsaw\u2019s CEO, Dr Joseph Duffy, and Director of Services, Sarah Cullinan, to Waterford to view the building and they were delighted with its central location and suitability.<\/p>\n
\u201cRecruitment has already commenced to secure the clinical and administrative staff required.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will continue to work closely with the Jigsaw team to ensure this service opens at the earliest possible opportunity to support young people in Waterford and the South East with their mental health.\u201d<\/p>\n
Minister Butler said that Jigsaw had confirmed \u201cstrong interest\u201d from existing staff who wish to relocate to Waterford.<\/p>\n
Waterford Sinn F\u00e9in TD David Cullinane said: \u201cDelighted to get an update from Jigsaw, the Youth Mental Health service, that they have identified a premises in Waterford and are close to agreement on a lease.”\u00a0<\/p>\n
Deputy Cullinane is also Sinn F\u00e9in’s Health spokesperson.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce it\u2019s signed, they will move to hire the staff needed, with services expected to be in place in the second half of this year,” he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cConor McGuinness and I worked closely on this issue with Minister Mary Butler…Now let\u2019s see this delivered.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waterford Fianna F\u00e1il TD and Minister for Mental Health, Mary Butler, said recruitment has begun to staff Jigsaw\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":277480,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,61,60,410,411],"class_list":{"0":"post-277479","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-mental-health","12":"tag-mentalhealth"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277479","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277479\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/277480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}