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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I am really disappointed that we have to have this meeting. I suspect it will be the first of a series of meetings we will have on issues like this. I find that deplorable. People entrusted CHI with the care of their children. Children are not small adults. They have a very specific set of needs. I say this as a TD and a parent, I think CHI abused that. Not only are the parents...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Will the HSE engage with the parents around the terms of reference?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: The HSE will give them that commitment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Will the HSE commit to making counselling and mental health supports available to both the children and their parents?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Treatment of Children with Dysplasia and Scoliosis and Related Matters: Discussion (19 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: And their children.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 264: In page 148, between lines 35 and 36, to insert the following:

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 247: In page 135, line 30, to delete “consultant psychiatrist” and substitute “qualified mental health professional”. These amendments seek in similar ways to the previous amendment I spoke on to align the language of the Bill with policies previously published and to promote distributed leadership across mental health services. I believe...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 248: In page 135, line 35, to delete “consultant psychiatrist” and substitute “qualified mental health professional”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 252: In page 145, between lines 12 and 13, to insert the following: “5-year sharing the vision funding and implementation strategy 177. (1) The Minister shall, within 12 months of the passage of this Act, publish a five-year funding and implementation strategy for mental health services. (2) The strategy referenced in subsection (1) shall be reviewed...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I want to speak to amendment No. 234 and in general to this area of regulation. I speak of this and while there is not a direct link, there is absolute correlation. I am going to mention the RTÉ Investigates programme and the HIQA report, HIQA having been in with the health committee this morning. The reason I bring it up is that I do not ever want to see this State being in a...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 228: In page 120, between lines 25 and 26, to insert the following: “ “community mental health services” means a mental health service which provides either urgent or routine care and treatment in a place other than a registered acute mental health centre or registered community mental health centre, including such services as crisis...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Amendment No. 213 is fairly simple. It seeks to align the vision from previously published documents and promote distributed leadership across mental health services. Twice earlier this evening, I spoke on the wrong amendment at the wrong time, but this is the one I was speaking of. Throughout the document, there are references to consultant psychiatrists, whether that be child or adult...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 212: In page 109, between lines 5 and 6, to insert the following: “(3) The Commission shall within 12 months publish a report on the quality and independence of complaints processes and make recommendations for the strengthening of such processes.”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I fully agree with the Minister of State's point about social media - I will not drag this on much longer, a Cheann Comhairle - particularly on the issue of eating disorders. This really strikes me. I remember when I was a teenager that the pro-ana or pro-anorexia movement was on MySpace and Bebo. This is not a new phenomenon but we have to get to the bottom of it because people are losing...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 206: In page 95, between lines 7 and 8, to insert the following: “(e) prepare and issue a code of practice for— (i) the conduct of psychosocial and capacity assessments, and (ii) the formulation and implementation of collaborative care plans, (f) review and update such codes of practice periodically, and (g) consult with service users,...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I move amendment No. 211: In page 108, between lines 27 and 28, to insert the following: “(d) the progress towards and resource requirements for the extension of CAMHS towards a CYMHS for young people up to the age of 25, and the development of youth mental health clinical specialty, (e) the estimated number of whole-time equivalent clinicians to fully and safely staff public...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I thank the Minister of State for her comprehensive response. She should absolutely go to every single CAMHS team to find out what the best practice is and have it replicated around the country. This should be standard procedure. However, for those 763 kids who are waiting more than a year for a CAMHS appointment, that is not what their parents or guardians want to hear. They want to know...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: I also have that in a reply to a parliamentary question that it does not keep a record of the children it does not see. To get a holistic and overarching view, those critical pieces of information and data must be collated. The tracking of the child's needs from when they present to when they accept or receive an offer of services is vital. What we will find is children who have been...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: Brilliant.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Sorca Clarke: The consistency.