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- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: I asked a specific question. Can Ms O’Neill tell me how this-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: Excuse me-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: Chairman, this is absolutely-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: Can Ms O’Neill see me?
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: I did not hear most of what Ms O’Neill said because I only wanted an answer as to how Waterford was chosen. The reality is that if I put my hand up, I would ask Ms O’Neill to stop speaking because clearly she could not hear anything else. If Ms O’Neill can see me and I raise my hand, this is because we have limited time. Is that okay?
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: I thank Ms O’Neill.
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: I did not hear it because I was frustrated by the fact that I had said something and Ms O’Neill could not hear me and she continued speaking.
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: I ask that Ms O’Neill might furnish me with a reply in writing because I need to understand how these things are being decided, one over the other. It was a pilot programme that was announced five months ago now, if not seven or eight months almost, and it is not yet up and running. Can Ms O’Neill issue a progress report for the benefit of the committee?
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: I thank Ms O’Neill. I have another question, and I am again unsure as to who will take it but probably Ms O’Connor. How does the HSE identify gaps in the services it provides and how does it feed back the information on recruitment targets?
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: Excuse me, Ms O'Connor.
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: This is very frustrating. We are being given an awful lot of superfluous information that does not answer the initial question. I want a specific answer. There was an exponential increase, in the region of some 300%, in young people presenting with anorexia in Wexford during the Covid period. How does that measure against the HSE's targets, which we do not have? We need a paediatric...
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: Who is close enough to know them?
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: Will Ms O'Connor actually come back to me? I have been asking for two years why we only have an allocation of 0.5 of a paediatric dietician, yet we have a 300% increase in cases of anorexia. I have asked this question of the Taoiseach, the Tánaiste and CHO 5. I have written to everybody I can think of asking why our allocation has not been increased to one full-time equivalent, in...
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: Is that not ridiculous? It seems the Business Postis correct in its report that the targets have been described as batshit. Would Ms O'Connor not say that description is appropriate and the targets are exactly that?
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: I know Ms O'Connor cannot comment on it but that is what we are here for today. We are letting children and their families down. We cannot sit here complacently in such a way that we cannot hear one another. This is an absolute farce. The witnesses have come in here and they have to be eyeballed to answer these questions. They are evading most of them.
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: Mr. Reid should only do so if he can answer the question. I would not advise him to try to reprimand me for anything I have said. I want straight answers. I want the children who are dealing with mental illnesses and their families to be accommodated. They are not able to swing off to wellness conferences.
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: Does Mr. Reid have an answer to the question?
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: I do not need a lecture.
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: The witnesses were asked a straight question and they cannot give a straight answer. That is the problem. It is very frustrating. I am only a politician; I am not the parent with a child suffering with mental health issues. The entire country is going to end up paying for this. I ask again why we do not have an allocation for a dietician for CAMHS in Wexford when there has been a 300%...
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Verona Murphy: May I have an answer on the staffing levels for the children's disability network team in Wexford? Do we have full staffing levels there?