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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: While we offer accolades for all of the good words that have been uttered at this meeting, they were all committed to paper 13 years ago. As a member of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, I am stickler for profiling people and conducting research. Page 15 of the document mentioned the need for multidisciplinary teams, to adopt a recovery perspective, to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I am waiting for two answers, one in respect of a child who presents in a crisis and how he or she can get the acute intervention with a CAMHS team. Second, I addressed a question to Professor O'Connor on her earlier contribution, which has already been identified, and why we have not delivered on it. The roadmap, A Vision for Change, was set out in 2004, but looking at what has been put in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I could not agree more with Professor O'Connor, who mentioned Tusla, but Tusla does not have a fully functioning ICT system, so when we talk about Tusla social care workers or any other workers, they have no way. There is also a data protection issue because they are not currently sharing information with An Garda Síochána or with the GP service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Is it in use at this moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I could not agree more with Professor O'Connor. One of the problems when a child presents at a GP practice is that the only recourse for the doctor is to refer the child to the child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS, which must refer the child on. Why can the GP service not make a direct referral to the youth advocate programme, YAP, or whoever is identified as a provider?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: At the moment, if a patient in Galway presents to a local GP, that patient has to be referred to CAMHS.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I am talking from experience. I am working with people on the ground and I can tell Professor O'Connor that it must go through CAMHS. CAMHS operates the referral system and it decides at what stage an intervention is made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: We are trying to identify and get around road blocks for young people and their parents and to see if we can get the correct early intervention so that when GPs make the referral to acute services, the services are available. We also need to stop it going through the one channel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I have been a bit parochial because I know a lot of GPs in Galway. There are wellness centres in Galway, as well as positive talk therapy. It is being done really well.

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 661. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the opening date of the consultation on the over age exemption in the ECCE programme; the closing date; and the date by which her Department will make a decision on the future of the over age exemption. [54075/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 650. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding provided to the school completion programme in 2017; and the amount budgeted for 2018. [54064/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 655. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding provided to the school completion programme in 2017; and the amount budgeted for 2018. [54069/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: School Completion Programme (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 651. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the number of schools that have availed of the school completion programme each year since 2011. [54065/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 652. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding provided to the family resource centre network in 2017; and the amount budgeted for 2018. [54066/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 653. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount of funding provided to the family resource centres in 2017; and the total amount budgeted for 2018. [54067/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 654. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her expansion plans for the family resource centre network; and the counties in which she plans to establish new family resource centres. [54068/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Workers Recruitment (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 656. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of hiring an additional social care worker. [54070/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 657. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of the 300 additional Tusla staff who are being recruited to handle mandatory reporting, by job title and pay grade. [54071/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Public Relations Contracts Data (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 658. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the use of external public relations firms employed per annum by her Department since coming into office, in tabular form; the external public relations firm used; the internal departmental policy with regard to employing external groups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54072/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 659. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the photography costs per annum for her Department since coming to office, inclusive of costs incurred from use of the ministerial allowance, in tabular form; the occasions for which photographers were booked; the photographers used; the costs associated with each occasion that a photographer was used; if there is a policy regarding the...