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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (2 May 2024)

Micheál Martin: ...a constructive way with a proposal to deal with the issue. I could not agree more that multi-agency working is essential. One of the great problems and challenges in public services is the silo mentality and the absence of a genuine cross-agency and multiple agency co-operation approach. I will refer the matter to the Minister for Justice and the Minister for children to see if the...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Gerard Craughwell: ...honours is the day we can pack it in and go home. There was a so-called independent review of Jadotville. My former colleague’s son rang me this morning. During his witness statement, he was asked about his personal mental health even though it was his father that the body was inquiring about. Another woman in New Zealand underwent in-depth questioning about her mental health....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Health Service Executive (2 May 2024)

David Cullinane: ...for 2024; it got zero. There are a range of posts that need to be filled in that area, such as radiologist and radiation therapy posts, none of which can be filled. There are also many vacancies in mental health care and we have heard from advocate groups in that area, but again the embargo is presenting a challenge there. Approximately 100,000 children are in need of dental screening...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (2 May 2024)

Mary Butler: As you are aware, eating disorders are very complex, very individual and can be one of the most serious mental health illnesses. Historically there has been a lack of publicly funded services for people with eating disorders in Ireland. This is now changing, with the Model of Care for the National Clinical Programme for Eating Disorders launched in 2018. Since I have come to Office in...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Eating Disorders (2 May 2024)

Martin Browne: ...in Ireland requires a collaborative working between professionals and would involve working between the acute hospital sector and HSE community healthcare divisions such as primary care, disability and mental health; how that management process can work efficiently in light of a lack of dietitians across primary care, outpatient paediatrics and community mental health services; and if he...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (2 May 2024)

Pauline Tully: 62. To ask the Minister for Health the actions he has taken to decrease waiting times for children and adolescents to access CAMHS in CHO1; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [19868/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Services (2 May 2024) See 1 other result from this answer

Mary Butler: ...fully the upset and anxiety this has caused for the affected families. The HSE has assured me that they are doing everything possible to alleviate the distress this decision has caused. As Minister for Mental Health and Older People, I take the health and safety of residents in long-term residential care facilities very seriously. I will not ignore a directive from the Health Information...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (2 May 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 311. To ask the Minister for Health the steps that are being taken to increase adult mental health services in CHO7; if the precise measures deemed to be necessary are being taken forthwith; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [20146/24]

Criminal Law (Sexual Offences and Human Trafficking) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

James Browne: I move amendment No. 1: In page 14, between lines 29 and 30, to insert the following: “ “vulnerable person” means a person who has— (a) a physical disability, (b) a mental or intellectual disability, or (c) a mental illness, which is of such a nature or degree as to severely restrict the person to guard himself or herself against serious...

Supports for Survivors of Residential Institutional Abuse Bill 2024: Second Stage (Resumed) (1 May 2024) See 3 other results from this debate

Jennifer Murnane O'Connor: ...medical card patients for blood tests when they should not. I would not like to see this happening to survivors. Shameful as it is, we have to accept that some survivors are living in poverty and may have mental health problems. Some are homeless and socially isolated. The package of support containing the enhanced medical card gives survivors access to GP services, medicines, home...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (1 May 2024)

Paul Murphy: ...impact on all their lives. They have no cooking facilities, the father has diabetes and the bad diet is having a seriously bad impact on him. The 11-year-old son has asthma and now has very bad mental health issues. He cries every day. He is really depressed. He is cramped in the same room as seven other people. He has a six-year-old sister who also cries every day and who is not...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (1 May 2024) See 2 other results from this debate

Simon Harris: ...about asking the health service to hire more doctors, nurses, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, more people to work in disability services and more people to work in our mental health services. There will be more people working in each of those areas at the end of this year than there were at the end of last year. We are also saying there has to be some reality and...

Seanad: Gnó an tSeanaid - Business of Seanad: Road Network (1 May 2024)

Robbie Gallagher: ...in the mornings, dropping their children to school or whatever have to travel on these roads day and night. The roads as so bad in many locations that not only people's vehicles but also their mental health are being affected. We must also take into account the danger of people swerving to avoid potholes. The funding allocation for roads is welcome but, unfortunately, it falls way...

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (1 May 2024)

Fiona O'Loughlin: ...County Council that it would be for people aged over 55 and for people with disabilities. There are very unfortunate rumours and people are peddling stories that it is for drug addicts and people with mental health issues. People are going up to the school which is beside the convent and giving out utter rubbish in terms of information. I want to call this out in the most public place I...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Report and Final Stages (1 May 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...we included in our women's health action plan last week. On nearly all of the measures we set out to launch in 2021, we have met or exceeded them in terms of menopause and endometriosis services, perinatal and mental health, eating disorders, bereavement services and many more. The credit for that goes to our healthcare workers. The impact that these services are having cannot be...

Seanad: Loneliness: Motion (1 May 2024) See 11 other results from this debate

Pauline O'Reilly: ...is the public health crisis of this generation; - the 2021 study by the UK Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution, which noted that younger farmers were less likely to confide in anyone about poor mental wellbeing and more likely to report feeling lonely; - research conducted by Calor and Macra na Feirme (2016) which found that 27 percent of people nationwide put down loneliness as...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Primary Care Centres (1 May 2024)

Éamon Ó Cuív: ...for people travelling from the islands. It is also an area where public transport is very poor. Clifden district hospital used to have a wide range of services and has had an X-ray machine installed in it since the 2000s. There are also good mental health services in Clifden. We know the nursing home in Clifden and the hospital there are going to be amalgamated with a new CNU on the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation: Role and Operation of the Health and Safety Authority: Discussion (1 May 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Richard Bruton: I would be interested to explore a bit more what Mr. O'Brien is referencing with remote working and the broader concept of mental health stress and well-being in the workplace. On remote working, I presume it is quite a change in employers' responsibilities in not having a site that they can see every day and be conscious of the different things. Has the HSA developed codes of practice at...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Disability Matters: United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities at Local Level: Discussion (Resumed) (1 May 2024)

...providers. The legal team provides regular guidance and training to our adjudication officers on equality law matters and related themes, such as unconscious bias, reasonable accommodations, mental health issues and the Equal Treatment Bench Book. We have also published a number of guidance documents to simplify adjudications, including a guide to evidence for lay litigants, witness...

Written Answers — Department of Justice and Equality: Mental Health Services (1 May 2024)

Patrick Costello: 193. To ask the Tánaiste and Minister for Justice and Equality if her Department has received a copy of the recently published report by Mental Health Reform "Mental health services & supports in prisons: Service Mapping and Reflections from Lived Experiences"; and if she will make an itemised response to each of the recommendations included. [19611/24]