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Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Recruitment (17 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: 166. To ask the Minister for Health the number of vacant positions being recruited for by the HSE in the mental health section; the details based on the discipline of the position; and the length of time of the vacancy and the stage the recruitment process is at. [42645/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff Data (17 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: 167. To ask the Minister for Health the number of new positions that will be created in the new budget period; and the details of the discipline and level of these positions. [42646/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Recruitment (17 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: 168. To ask the Minister for Health the status of his efforts to attract new applicants for vacant positions in the mental health service, including initiatives or measures that are being planned; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42647/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (17 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: 169. To ask the Minister for Health if a new clinical psychologist has been hired to replace the vacancy at a service (details supplied); if not, the rationale for same; the timeline for a replacement to be hired; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42652/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Suicide Incidence (17 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: 178. To ask the Minister for Health the number of national incident report forms that were filed over the past four years, respectively, including 2018, in which death was registered as the outcome of self-injurious behaviour, including a breakdown on the basis of facility by CHO area; and if the behaviour was logged as intentional or unintentional. [42683/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (17 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: 179. To ask the Minister for Health the number of national incident report forms that were filed over the past four years, including 2018, which indicated self-injurious behaviour, including a breakdown on the basis of facility by CHO area and type of behaviour; and if the behaviour was logged as intentional or unintentional. [42684/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (16 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: 413. To ask the Minister for Health his priorities or preliminary plans for the allocation of additional funding for mental health services in 2019. [42025/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (16 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: 414. To ask the Minister for Health the amount which will be allocated to new mental health services in 2019; and the breakdown of the figure for current and capital expenditure. [42026/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Expenditure (16 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: 415. To ask the Minister for Health the amount spent on mental health services in 2018; and the breakdown for current and capital spending, inclusive of funding spent on new services. [42027/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (16 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: 416. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the health budget for 2019 that will be used to cover overspend in the health service from the previous years; if mental health funding will be protected from same; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42028/18]

Financial Resolutions 2019 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (10 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: Budget 2019 is not a budget for the ordinary people of the country or those from east Cork, but one for landlords and the wealthy. Issues plaguing the people, such as housing and health, were spoken about at length, but very little in the way of actual solutions was offered. In east Cork there have been huge rises in rent in recent years. The lowest one will pay for an apartment is...

Written Answers — Department of Health: HSE Staff Data (10 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: 106. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent psychologist vacancies in primary care by community healthcare organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41327/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services Data (10 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: 107. To ask the Minister for Health the number of whole-time equivalent psychologist vacancies in the child and adolescent mental health service by community healthcare organisation; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [41328/18]

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: I can say a great deal in one minute. First, I wish to be associated with all the comments of the Sinn Féin Deputies. Members have spoken repeatedly about the effect this will have on small businesses and particularly on rural Ireland. There has already been the issue with the post offices. I will repeat what I said here last week. Fianna Fáil Members are speaking out of both...

Financial Resolution No. 3: Value-Added Tax (9 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: They are hiding behind the blue buttons. They do not have the balls.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: Some 190,000 people. This figure does not include what we call the silent homeless. These are couples who have reared their families and put them through college and who are paying a mortgage when all of a sudden the banks foreclose on that mortgage. The marriage breaks down and the family unit is broken up. To make it worse, social justice is battered, beaten and killed because the bank...

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: It is not holding the Government to account. That is absolutely shocking.

Housing: Motion [Private Members] (3 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: Fianna Fáil has normalised this and is facilitating the Government. It has normalised homelessness and both sides of debt. It should be absolutely ashamed. Fianna Fáil should get its finger out.

Mental Health (Renewal Orders) Bill 2018: Committee and Remaining Stages (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: I move amendment No. 1: In page 5, line 2, after “application” to insert “per renewal order period”.

Mental Health (Renewal Orders) Bill 2018: Second Stage (2 Oct 2018)

Pat Buckley: I welcome the opportunity to contribute to the debate on the Bill. I commend the Minister of State and his Department for their quick and comprehensive work in bringing forward the Bill which not only fixes the legal issues which arose from the High Court's ruling but also improves the rights of patients in terms of their access to a review of their detention and creates a fairer and more...