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Education (Smartphones in Primary Schools) Bill 2024: First Stage (22 May 2024)

Peadar Tóibín: ...Studies have shown that young children spend twice as much time on their mobile phones as they do speaking to their parents. Being constantly on their phones is isolating them, challenging their mental health and leading to a significantly sedentary lifestyle. The latter gives rise to obesity, which leads to bad health. The idea of childhood is being radically altered by this new...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Special Educational Needs (22 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...children with the most complex special educational needs, so that all of these schools, rather than just a quarter, can benefit from having an administrative deputy principal. These posts will be instrumental in assisting principals with leadership and management functions and to support learning and parental and community engagement. This will make a real difference to staff and...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (22 May 2024)

Sharon Keogan: ...trend of the State neglecting its commitments to children, particularly in the areas I mentioned. The State's inability to provide adequate school places, address bullying, ensure access to mental health services and support children with disabilities is a clear indication of its failure to prioritise the well-being of our youth. The lack of oversight in early learning settings and the...

Seanad: Employment Permits Bill 2022: Committee Stage (22 May 2024)

Frances Black: ...social integration. The connection between work and social inclusion has been long established. The Minister of State will be familiar with the work my colleagues and I have done on poverty, discrimination, mental health, integration and work-life balance. If the Bill truly seeks to create a more responsive and flexible system, we must ensure that it is underpinned by our understanding...

Dentistry Services: Motion (22 May 2024)

Jennifer Whitmore: ...dental surgery lists, hundreds of them in CHOs 6 and 7, which cover my constituency of Wicklow. The impact of this on those tens of thousands of children is enormous, both on their physical and mental health. A further 13,294 patients are on the orthodontics waiting list, 11,000 of whom have been waiting for more than a year. This is extremely worrying when we know one third of children...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing Disability Services: Discussion (Resumed) (22 May 2024)

Dr. Noreen O'Leary: The links between education sectors and mental health services are very important. In terms of those initial priorities, we need joined-up thinking and working.

Written Answers — Department of Finance: Tax Exemptions (22 May 2024)

Cathal Berry: 55. To ask the Minister for Finance if he will consider exempting psychotherapists and counsellors from the 13.5% VAT rate, in order to improve access to mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23268/24]

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Departmental Policies (22 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: I am advised by the Irish Prison Service that as the Psychology Service provides an integrated, layered model of care, in which assessment and intervention is provided for those with mental health difficulties and criminogenic risk and need, formal mental health training is essential. Formal mental health training is provided through the core placements within the postgraduate clinical...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Prison Service (22 May 2024)

Helen McEntee: ...Orders and the Psychology Service screen those without Post Release Supervision. Criteria for the Building Better Lives programme includes: admission of the offence and harm caused, stability of mental health and personality, sufficient sentence length, moderate to high risk of re-offending, and capacity to engage in group programmes. If deemed suitable based on these criteria, people...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 151. To ask the Minister for Health the current staffing provision, per grade, of psychologists for the north Lee, south Lee, north Cork and west Cork primary care child/adolescent psychology services; and the population size each area serves, in tabular form. [23255/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (22 May 2024)

Alan Farrell: 154. To ask the Minister for Health if specialist mental health services for eating disorder patients will be extended to all paediatric hospitals; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [23027/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 May 2024)

Paul Donnelly: 199. To ask the Minister for Health the number of WTE psychiatrists based in each primary care centre within CHO7 in 2023 and to-date, in 2024, in tabular form. [23246/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 May 2024)

Holly Cairns: 203. To ask the Minister for Health the number of referrals to the north Lee, south Lee, north Cork and west Cork primary care child/adolescent psychology services between 1 May 2023 and 1 May 2024. [23256/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Employment of Consultants and Non-consultant Hospital Doctors in Public Hospitals: Irish Medical Organisation (22 May 2024) See 4 other results from this debate

John Lahart: ...stated the IMO's research carried out over a number of years shows that 94% of doctors reported having experienced some form of depression, anxiety, exhaustion, stress, emotional stress or other mental health condition relating to or made worse by work and 80% of doctors are at risk of burnout. What steps has the IMO taken to address those as a professional representative organisation?

Housing Situation: Motion (Resumed) [Private Members] (21 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...What about another mother who is 38 and has a 12-year-old daughter, a ten-year-old son and a seven-year-old son with home she sleeps in one bedroom? 8 o’clock The school has written to say the children are withdrawing such is the impact on their mental health. They have loads of letters from the doctors to say their mental health is in bits, but they have been denied...

Housing for All: Statements (Resumed) (21 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Violet-Anne Wynne: ..., a family, a pensioner or someone else in need. When these people receive that relevant notice to quit, their world is turned upside down and inside out. The impact on children is astronomical. Mentally, it is a pressure like no other. In Clare, the local authority is working with more than 60 recipients of notices to quit. For further context, there are 2,866 on the social housing...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Policies (21 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Richard Boyd Barrett: ...families than living in very poor housing conditions. An increasing phenomena is of mothers, fathers and children being crammed into tiny spaces, which is seriously damaging to the well-being and mental health and physical health of children. When there is medical evidence to back the need to prioritise such people for housing, local authorities are increasingly refusing medical priority...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (21 May 2024)

Hildegarde Naughton: ...by the Social Democrats. Thursday's business shall be - Statements on Business Support Package (not to exceed 2 hrs 27 mins) Thursday evening business shall be the Motion re Report entitled "Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education”. Proposed Arrangements for this week’s business: In relation to Tuesday’s business, it is proposed that: 1. the...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Health Services (21 May 2024)

Mary Seery Kearney: ...with the progress of his care or to know what exactly is happening and he is not getting any feedback. There is no point of contact for the family. They have no idea of the set-up and from a mental health perspective, their view is that he has deteriorated in that time. This is the first I have heard of us sending people to the UK on a long-term basis. The treatment purchase scheme...