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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Will she explain the statement that since 2013 mental health expenditure has increased from €709 million to €867 million, an increase of 22%? I am trying to work that out.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: What was the mental health budget for 2017?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: What percentage was it of the overall budget?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: What was it in 2016?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: It is nearly misleading when one sees 22%. In fact, the overall budget for mental health is 6%.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: How is the HSE spending it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Yes, but I am seeking the breakdown. I refer again to Deputy Neville's question, which was very succinct. Where is the difference in terms of improvement and development of existing services?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Where is it being spent in the community? By community I mean the people of east Galway, but it is replicated across the country. For example, there was a community house with six patients in Athleague. On the weekend of Storm Ophelia the patients were moved to Castlerea and elsewhere and the house has closed since then. The Rosalie unit is in the process of closing down. In Portumna the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: I have two supplementary questions. Earlier we spoke about early intervention. The last resource is CAMHS so every other intervention is before that. We are nearly six months into the new budget so what portion of the new mental health funding allocated by the Minister in that budget has been spent on other than existing resources? What is being spent on new projects? The money was...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: I totally agree with Ms O'Connor and I do not dispute one thing she has said. In her statement Ms O'Connor said that the service is still spending the funding from 2017. Is the 2018 money that is in the pipeline going to be too late for some services that are trying to penny-pinch to get them through to the end of the year?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Yes. On the issue of the same initiatives, what about the new groups that provide the services? As elected representatives, can we tell them to hang on, as it will get better next year or that because there may be a few euro coming next year, they can continue to provide the invaluable service they provide?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: I have one last question on dual diagnoses. I do not mean to say that it is a problem specific to Galway currently, but I refer to the issues for a child who has autism in my area. The Galway Autism Partnership, GAP, group, had come under the mental health services but must now change how it does business, perhaps because it is in the wrong space. There is a transition of moving the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: There is a transition taking place, with some children never having had an assessment. There is concern, especially among the parents of sixth class children who are now going into first year, that their children have not received assessments.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: That would be really appreciated. Parents understand that it has to move and what the HSE is doing in this regard but we also realise that we cannot have children moved who have not had their assessments and who have been on the waiting list for some 18 months.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Is it the case that when there is one entry point one can access various services?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: Is the HSE conducting a pilot of this anywhere?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Business of Joint Committee (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: We have a quorum and will commence in public session. I welcome Ms Maud de Boer-Buquiccio, the UN special rapporteur on the sale and sexual exploitation of children, who is in the Visitors Gallery. A number of the members met earlier with Ms de Boer-Buquiccio and had the opportunity to discuss her brief. She has now served four years of a six year term and has brought emphasis in respect...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: I wish everybody a good morning. What normally does not happen here has happened this morning, in that we have a slight technical problem. If members and witnesses wish to speak, they must press the button in front of them. That will mean only one person can speak at a time, as otherwise the microphones will not pick up their contributions. That will mean we will have a very courteous...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank Mr. Ó Ruairc and invite Mr. Browne to make his presentation.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Tackling Childhood Obesity: Discussion (Resumed) (16 May 2018)
Anne Rabbitte: I thank Mr. Browne very much for his presentation. I now call on Ms Maeve McCafferty, education and research official with the Irish National Teachers Organisation, INTO.