Results 241-260 of 636 for speaker:Joan Freeman
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: Before getting to Deputy Neville, I ask again how we can ask for more funding when we still do not know how money is being spent. I am specifically referring to CAMHS.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: There can be no response to that really as we will have to wait on it.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: What are the figures for the clinical and non-clinical staff in the HSE mental health services? I would like those figures.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: I thank Deputy Rabbitte. When Ms O'Connor provides Deputy Rabbitte and the committee with that information, will she also give a timeframe?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: Not now but when Ms O'Connor is sending in the information. I apologise to Senator Devine. There was a list before me and this is why she is at the end. Please go ahead.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: What is the timeframe for the eating disorder service?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: It is based in Dublin south west at the moment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: I will summarise what we are looking for in a moment. Why does the HSE never implement or listen to the recommendations in the thousands of reports that have been done on mental health services?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: Only approximately 50% of A Vision for Change has been implemented. How many years is it since it was published?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: I am aware that it is being reviewed. It is a review of a review of a review. I am curious about the thousands of reports. There was a magnificent cognitive psychiatry piece on the recruitment and retention of clinical staff. I do not suppose there is an answer.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: How long has this been going on? Ms O'Connor is putting a positive spin on it. She says that the HSE is looking at it and things are about to be implemented. We need to know when that will happen.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: We do not know where the money is being spent in some areas.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: We are looking for the CAMHS spending down to the last penny.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: We find that a little bit-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: We would not be if Mr. Sullivan could tell us how he spent the €70 and came back with a receipt. I am sorry, Mr. Sullivan, but this is a pointless argument because we have asked this question over and over. Deputy Browne wants to ask a question now.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: With a new director general coming in, are there going to be more changes? Is he or she going to adopt and accept this new structure or will there be more changes?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: Mr. Sullivan does not know if this new director is going to make any change.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: Logic does not always win, though, does it?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: I am going to summarise exactly what we have asked the witnesses to do today, if that is alright. Deputy Neville asked-----
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Restructuring of Mental Health Services: HSE (16 May 2018)
Joan Freeman: Thank you, Deputy. Deputy Neville was looking for an organisational structure chart, and I added that it should include numbers in each section. We will send the witnesses an official request for this. Could they also add the figures for clinical and non-clinical staff out of the whole of the mental health services, sub-divided into the numbers working in HR, finance and some of the other...