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Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I welcome the Tánaiste's response and her personal observations about the value of guidance counselling, particularly in terms of mental health. The real value of a career guidance counsellor is that young people with issues in their family environment or personal issues can go to a counsellor and have a one-to-one session without any stigmatisation around the issue of mental health....

Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: It is not dedicated.

Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: That is not good enough.

Leaders' Questions (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Budget 2012 introduced perhaps the single most damaging cut to education, that is, the removal of ex quotaguidance counselling provision in second level schools. The Institute of Guidance Counsellors conducted an audit since then and it states that the current practice is "a portrait of inequality". One member of the institute described a wave of self-harm among teenagers that would alarm...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 245. To ask the Minister for Health if the practice of detaining children in adult mental health units fully ceased in accordance with the promises made by the Government in their programme for Government in 2011; the progress made; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17621/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 246. To ask the Minister for Health the amount of the budget in 2015 that was allocated to mental health spending; the amount of that budget that has been used for staffing in mental health services to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17622/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 247. To ask the Minister for Health why child and adult mental health services is not extended to adolescents between 16 and 18 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17623/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 248. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with mental health difficulties who have been admitted to adult units in the past 12 months; the adult units here that children have been sent to in the past 12 months; the length of time each child stayed in the adult unit; if she will include a breakdown of the hospitals and number of admissions; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 249. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been any reported incidents of violence between adults and children in psychiatric units in the past four years; if so, how many and the type of violence; how this was dealt with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17625/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant psychiatrist vacancies currently within the child and adult mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17626/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 251. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the other health services which benefited from the recent redistribution of €12 million in the recent health budget previously earmarked for mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17627/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Expenditure (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 252. To ask the Minister for Health the mental health budget spending in 2015; if funds were left over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17628/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 253. To ask the Minister for Health the service level agreements that were created between the Health Service Executive and private mental health facilities in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17629/16]

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Ten minutes is too short.

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I know, but we would want to get these rules changed because we are either going to have a substantive debate or we are not. Ten minutes to me is just not enough, it is crazy------

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I thought we always had 15 minutes.

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: You are not. The Acting Chairman is a saint and I am not casting any aspersions.

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: With regard to agriculture and access to the below cost credit, I hope the Taoiseach's colleagues on the European Council really realise how grave the agriculture situation is. Our farmers are in dire trouble and there is real concern about the situation. The issue needs to be raised at the meeting next week.

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I will just conclude, if I may. A vote for "Remain" is a vote for a positive vision of the future. A vote for "Leave" is at best a dramatic risk and more likely a return to a time defined by destructive competition between nations. Such a vote would be cheered by the extreme right and extreme left as well as authoritarian countries. Whatever happens, we should agree that next...

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: It is important to express our solidarity with the family, community and political colleagues of Jo Cox. The murder of a public representative is a truly shocking event, particularly in a democracy, and many people were genuinely saddened and shocked by the event. The British Labour Party has lost a rising star who was passionate about politics and about issues outside purely party politics...