This independent report, commissioned by Amnesty International Ireland and Mental
Health Reform, aims to provide an economic assessment of the progress on A Vision for
Change (AVFC), which set out a programme of radical reform of the provision of mental
health services in Ireland. It also aims to provide information to support further
implementation of the reforms. The difficulty in accessing the necessary data on services
made this task very difficult. Therefore this report uses what limited data was available to
assess mental health service reform.