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Select Committee on Housing, Planning and Local Government: Planning and Development Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (17 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Cian O'Callaghan: ...and accessible. There are also huge advantages in terms of community-building and everything that falls out of that as well, such as people getting to know their neighbours, well-being and mental health benefits, and people feeling safer in an area where they are part of a good community. When communities are involved in designing their own housing, it works well. One of the things that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Social Protection: Impact of Means Testing on Farm Assist and Other Social Welfare Schemes: Discussion (17 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...spent everything they had on fodder and looking after their stock and they have no income for themselves. They are putting their stock before themselves. This has left farmers in a very bad mental state of fear. In fairness, many farmers do not know how to look for farm assist. They do not have the mental well-being to go and look for it. This is a big problem at the moment. With no...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Transport, Tourism and Sport: Anti-Social Behaviour on Public Transport: Discussion (17 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

...up and that staff member was out sick. We talked about people being off ill for a long time. That staff member took it very badly, as you can imagine. It was not only the injuries he had but the mental side of it as well. He could not go back to that station. We had to get him somewhere else where he was not involved with passengers. It just shows it can happen and can be done. In...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Education Schemes (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...2023 - the Deputy is correct - I was very pleased to launch a €5 million pilot of counselling and well-being supports in primary schools in selected counties. This further supports the range of mental health and well-being supports already provided by my Department and the excellent work already happening in schools in respect of well-being. All of this supplements the mental...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Cabinet Committees (16 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Richard Boyd Barrett: The National Youth Council of Ireland, NYCI ,report suggests that half of young people are very unhappy with their housing situation and more than half feel their mental health is seriously being affected by this issue. They have good reason to feel that way. I will give two examples. This week, I met a family who are being evicted. They are a working family who got a notice to quit on...

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Ivana Bacik: I want to raise with the Taoiseach an issue that is a real concern around the mental health of young people and children. Paul Gordon of the National Youth Council of Ireland has said today that millennials, Generation Z and Generation Alpha may be the first to have worse outcomes than their parents since the foundation of the State. A National Youth Council survey shows that a third of...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (16 Apr 2024)

Mary Lou McDonald: ...end up in wheelchairs. Some children wait so long that they become inoperable and they have run out of time. Too many children and their parents face this agonising wait. The suffering and the mental distress is just unimaginable. In 2017 the Taoiseach promised that by the end of that year no child would wait longer than four months for scoliosis surgery. That was seven years ago and...

Appointment of Ministers and Ministers of State (16 Apr 2024)

Simon Harris: ...of Housing, Local Government and Heritage with special responsibility for nature, heritage and electoral reform; Deputy Mary Butler as Minister of State at the Department of Health with special responsibility for mental health and older people; Deputy Thomas Byrne as Minister of State at the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media and at the Department of Education...

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Sport and Recreational Development (16 Apr 2024)

Tim Lombard: ...This could be looked at regarding putting a special fund in place. If we do not, we will have a year with no running in this county. Not having a track available is simply unacceptable. We all talk about mental health and well-being and we want to encourage people to get outside after a terrible winter. We need to get funding for this, if we possibly can.

Seanad: Nithe i dtosach suíonna - Commencement Matters: Agriculture Industry (16 Apr 2024) See 1 other result from this debate

Robbie Gallagher: ...entire country. When people's livelihood and the welfare of their animals or crops are so seriously affected by something over which they have absolutely no control, it has to take a toll on their mental health, no matter how strong any individual might be. Up until now there have been relatively strong supplies of extra fodder available and farmers have been helping each other out...

Seanad: Agriculture: Statements (16 Apr 2024) See 6 other results from this debate

Paul Daly: ...the Minister’s decision and have suspended all unnecessary inspections while others are carrying on. It is causing a small bit of confusion as to whether councils will or will not do so. As the intention of the pausing is for mental health reasons for the farmers, who are under enough pressure without having an inspection, it just does not make sense that the Department is...

Seanad: Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services) (Safe Access Zones) Bill 2023: Committee Stage (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024)

Rónán Mullen: ...it because it is a time-honoured and essentially good expression of things. One only has to look at the data in relation to religious practice and the many positive associations it has with mental well-being and the ability to cope with life's challenges. Last night there was a debate on Katie Hannon's programme about the role of faith in schools and the point was made, directly or...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Protection of Children in the Use of Artificial Intelligence: Discussion (Resumed) (16 Apr 2024) See 5 other results from this debate

Mary Seery Kearney: ...as being that which advertisers can have access to. That is the basis of an advertising-based business model here. I read the advisory of the US Surgeon General, entitled Social Media and Youth Mental Health, and i am concerned about young people and their access to smart phones, which I think should be banned. Brain development has changed. Mental health has been affected by the...

Written Answers — Department of Education and Skills: Homeless Persons Supports (16 Apr 2024)

Norma Foley: ...potential from education. The loss of stable housing can be accompanied by a loss in possessions and a break-up of the social supports for children. This can lead to negative impacts for children moving through important developmental processes in developing relationship and learning social roles. My Department engaged with the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage (DHLG)...

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Departmental Bodies (16 Apr 2024)

Darragh O'Brien: ...and 817 homes in Castlelands, Balbriggan and the transfer of these sites to the LDA from the Housing Agency is in progress. Planning Permission has also been granted for 847 homes on the former Central Mental Hospital site in Dundrum. The transfer of land and design work is under way to allow a planning application within the next year on the vacant ESB land at Wilton with a potential...

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: Mental Health Services (16 Apr 2024)

Claire Kerrane: 539. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine what supports are in place to support mental health in the farming community; if he has had engagement on this issue; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [16042/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (16 Apr 2024)

Brian Stanley: 612. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the plans for the Erkina House, HSE mental health residence in Rathdowney, County Laois; his plans on the refurbishment and the upgrade of the facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15956/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (16 Apr 2024)

Bernard Durkan: 620. To ask the Minister for Health when required psychological support will be provided to a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [15967/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Medical Aids and Appliances (16 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...was established under Section 59(3) of the Health Act 1970 (as amended). Regulations were made in 1971, 1973 and 1975, prescribing 16 conditions covered by the Scheme. These are: acute leukaemia; mental handicap; cerebral palsy; mental illness (in a person under 16); cystic fibrosis; multiple sclerosis; diabetes insipidus; muscular dystrophies; diabetes mellitus; parkinsonism; epilepsy;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (16 Apr 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: ...was established under Section 59(3) of the Health Act 1970 (as amended). Regulations were made in 1971, 1973 and 1975, prescribing 16 conditions covered by the Scheme. These are: acute leukaemia; mental handicap; cerebral palsy; mental illness (in a person under 16); cystic fibrosis; multiple sclerosis; diabetes insipidus; muscular dystrophies; diabetes mellitus; parkinsonism; epilepsy;...