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Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: Yes, there is a recommendation in the Sharing the Vision policy to extend this provision out to 25, if I am correct?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I was contacted by a parent during the week and there were also reports in the newspapers concerning a young Irishman who was a patient of CAMHS. He spent more than three years in an adult facility here and has now been transferred over to Britain for treatment. I do not know if the witnesses saw this case referred to during the week. This young man's mother contacted me. She rang the...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: The Courts Service would also be involved.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I might come in again later but I will give another committee member the chance to contribute.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: Dr. Niazi made a comment that the currently vacant consultant psychiatrist post in Kerry is not very popular. What is the reason for that? He suggested we may know it was not very popular. I know it has not been filled, but what is his feeling on that?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I wish to tease something out with Dr. Burke. It was in report that the consultant psychiatrist is the lead, basically. The report advises that it is not international best practice and there are other models of care in relation to multidisciplinary teams. Has there been any consideration given to changing that?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: What would that look like?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: Early intervention was mentioned and how children are getting lower levels of engagement and have lower levels of mental health. We have 13,000 people waiting for a primary care psychologist. There is a 14% increase in young people who are looking for access to Pieta counselling. I met with Pieta representatives last week. They told me children as young as five turn up to the services...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I have tabled a number of parliamentary questions on that and I do not know if the witnesses answered them, but one of them probably did in the end. The feedback I got off the responses was not very positive in moving that direction.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I have one more question if that is okay. Early intervention and psychosis were mentioned a couple times. I dug out a parliamentary question I tabled on the budget for 2023. The standard response I am getting back at the moment is that the HSE is not in a position to respond to this question regarding the allocation of funding for 2023 as a national service plan is not yet finalised. When...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: That seems to be a systemic failure on this side of the meeting. Is there any way whoever is allocating budgets could notify the HSE of the anticipated budget any earlier so these plans could be in place early in 2023 or 2024, allowing us to hit the ground running?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I thank the Chair for allowing me back in.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I will give my apologies before I start because as soon as this is over, I will have to leave because I am due at a debate in the Dáil. I am delighted to have the opportunity to come in here and to listen to all the witnesses and everything they had to say. I am from Clondalkin. We have one of the longest-established direct provision centres in our area. Contrary to what is going on...

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: Absolutely.

Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Integration and Refugee Issues: Discussion (21 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: Is that a funding issue? Could organisations be given resources to do that? What are the barriers?

Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use: Motion (21 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I welcome that progress has been made on the Citizens' Assembly on Drugs Use. Sinn Féin has been calling for this for the past four years or more. I am from an area of high disadvantage and have seen the devastation drugs have inflicted on my area since I was a child. I have lived in a community that has seen intergenerational addiction and trauma within families. When I say "high...

Eviction Ban Bill 2022: Second Stage [Private Members] (22 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I thank People Before Profit-Solidarity for bringing this Bill before the House. This is the second time in two days that this issue has been debated in the Chamber. It just goes to show how the Government has lost control of the housing crisis. Levels of homelessness continue to rise, despite the winter ban on evictions. It is an extremely important issue that needs to be raised time and...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (22 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: What about the six months?

Policing, Security and Community Safety Bill 2023: Second Stage (22 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: While Sinn Féin welcomes the idea of expanding responsibility for community safety beyond An Garda Síochána, it is not clear what the purpose of the group is separate to the role of the Policing Authority. While establishing these committees could be a welcome move forward, the Government must also stick to previous commitments. A task force was to be set up to enable the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (21 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: 627. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children and adults who have been transferred to inpatient mental health facilities in Britain and the North of Ireland from 2014 to date in 2023, in tabular form; the number and location of such facilities; the amount which has been spent on this care for each facility. [8331/23]