The Mental Health Commission appointed Áine Flynn as the Director of the Decision Support Service in October 2017. The organisation will carry out its remit through a number of core business areas including registration of decision support arrangements, monitoring of decision supporters, establishing expert panels and a complaints and investigations function.
The Director and Decision Support Service are staff of the Mental Health Commission. You can read more about the Mental Health Commission staff here.

Áine Flynn
Director of the Decision Support Service

John Farrelly
Chief Executive Mental Health Commission
Patsy Fitzsimons
Head of Complaints and Investigations

Joanna Macklin
Head of DSS Panels

Kate Frowein
Head of Supervision

Aoife McMahon
Head of Registration

Ian Grehan
Head of Operations

Orla Keane
General Counsel

Brian Gillespie
Chief Operations Officer