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Mental Health Parity Bill 2017: Second Stage [Private Members] (2 May 2018)

Pat Buckley: I commend Deputy Browne on bringing forward this Bill. I am glad to have an opportunity to speak more on mental health in the Dáil. As I have said many times, the mental health services have a responsibility to address and to treat mental ill health. These are two of the biggest issues I come across on a daily basis in my work as a public representative. Everything in our lives...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Pat Buckley: I thank all the delegates for attending. I will be as brief as I can. Mental Health Ireland raised the issue of access. I was speaking to Deputy Crowe about this and I said that if somebody needs a newspaper, he or she knows they have to go to the newsagent. Newsagents are readily available. If one wants a drink, one goes to the pub. Gaining access to mental health services seems to be...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Pat Buckley: I call Deputy Tom Neville.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Pat Buckley: Is Deputy Neville happy enough with that?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Pat Buckley: It has been very different. The members of the committee have been and are very passionate. We are proud to be part of this unique forum; we will not call it a mission. We are here to ask the hard questions and do the right thing. It is not on our behalf or that of the delegates but on behalf of the people we all serve and future generations. I thank Mr. Rogan for his commentc. I knew...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Pat Buckley: I ask witnesses to be brief because we have roughly four minutes remaining.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (2 May 2018)

Pat Buckley: On behalf of the committee, I thank the witnesses for their attendance today. We thank them for their extremely useful information and no doubt it will assist us greatly.

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (1 May 2018)

Pat Buckley: I know recruitment is a massive problem. We know that the Minister of State, Deputy Jim Daly, sees this and he is trying to do his best. I ask him to use his and the Government's power to try to solve this. No amount of money is too much to ensure that services can finally be put in place. It is more than 12 years since A Vision for Change. As I mentioned, 70 schoolchildren died last...

Topical Issue Debate: Mental Health Services (1 May 2018)

Pat Buckley: I have loads of notes, as Deputies can see, but much of what is in them has been covered. I do not think enough time has been provided to debate this utter travesty and absolute emergency. I compliment RTÉ and, more importantly, those who took part in the documentary. How many more documentaries will we have to watch before the country wakes up? I got angry last week when I was told...

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Apr 2018)

Pat Buckley: Page 70 of the programme for Government mentions improving the lives of people with disabilities through better access, supports and independence. I want to bring up the case of a little boy, Noah Myers. He is seven years old and lives with his family in Mitchelstown in County Cork. He suffers from a condition known as Escobar syndrome, a rare congenital disorder that affects his joints....

Questions on Promised Legislation (26 Apr 2018)

Pat Buckley: I would really appreciate it.

Nurses' and Midwives' Pay and Recruitment: Motion [Private Members] (25 Apr 2018)

Pat Buckley: I also wish to extend a welcome to everyone in the Gallery and commend Deputy O'Reilly on bringing forward this motion. It is often said that nursing is a vocation, and of course it is, but primarily it is a job and a profession that requires a minimum of four years of work and study. Nurses are held up as paragons of virtue, and maybe that is also fair, but primarily they are workers and...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (25 Apr 2018)

Pat Buckley: 133. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the ten new beds that were to be opened in the Central Mental Hospital; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18175/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (25 Apr 2018)

Pat Buckley: 134. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the opening of Portrane mental health facility; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18176/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (25 Apr 2018)

Pat Buckley: 135. To ask the Minister for Health the number waiting in the prison system and in approved centres for admittance to the Central Mental Hospital in tabular form; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18177/18]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (25 Apr 2018)

Pat Buckley: 136. To ask the Minister for Health the medium and long-term residential rehabilitation beds that are provided for by CHO area; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [18178/18]

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Apr 2018)

Pat Buckley: The real No. 4 rises to speak. Page 66 of the programme for Government contains a commitment to conduct an evidence-based expert review of the current status of implementation of international best practice in mental health services in Ireland. The review will also advise on providing further capacity in child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS. Yesterday I was informed at the...

Questions on Promised Legislation (19 Apr 2018)

Pat Buckley: I was there.

Provision of Objective Sex Education Bill 2018: Second Stage [Private Members] (18 Apr 2018)

Pat Buckley: I express my wholehearted support for the Bill, with my party, Sinn Féin. It is an incredibly important and worthy issue for us to take time in the House to discuss, especially in the context of what has happened in recent months which have thrown up so many situations where the need for sexual education which is real, inclusive and meaningful has been painfully clear. As a mental...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Apr 2018)

Pat Buckley: I thank the witnesses for coming here today and, in particular, I thank Ms Magaharan and Mr. Walsh for their honest presentations. I have been a member of a lot of committees and conducted a lot of research on this matter over the years. I can honestly say that the submissions supplied by Ms Magaharan and Mr. Walsh have left me feeling very upset. The system is absolutely shocking,...