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- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Data (22 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Covid-19 Pandemic (22 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (24 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: I thank Deputies O'Rourke, Wynne and Cullinane for raising this really serious issue. I was under the impression that I was coming to the House to discuss issues concerning visitations to nursing homes, but I will address both issues. This was raised in the Dáil a couple of weeks ago by a Sinn Féin Deputy from Cork. I know it is a very challenging issue. I am a mother of...
- Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Healthcare Policy (24 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: The Covid-19 guidance on visitations to residential care facilities has been developed and is reviewed and revised on an ongoing basis in consultation with key national stakeholders. This is an important document that provides a pathway for safe visiting. Any updates are expected to encompass recent developments in the response. As I stated, however, the existing guidance is not without...
- Health (Amendment) (Professional Home Care) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 1: To delete all words after “That” and substitute the following: “Dáil Éireann resolves that the Health (Amendment) (Professional Home Care) Bill 2020 be deemed to be read a second time this day twelve months, in order to allow the Minister for Health to further consider some of the issues with the Bill, and having regard to the fact...
- Health (Amendment) (Professional Home Care) Bill 2020: Second Stage [Private Members] (24 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: I wish to thank all the Deputies who contributed to this important debate in the House. Once again I would like to thank Deputies Burke and Higgins for bringing forward this Private Members' Bill. The debate this evening has been very useful and the early discussion of the issues concerned will be of great benefit as my Department continues to progress proposals to regulate the home support...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (24 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: Protection of the vulnerable continues to be a Government priority, especially in these challenging times, and those with mental health issues are often among the most vulnerable in society. Access to services is central to the Government’s commitments under Sláintecare and the new national mental health policy, Sharing the Vision,and the Programme for Government: Our Shared...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (24 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (24 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (24 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Child Protection (24 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: Opinions on the validity of parental alienation are divided in the international community. It is not recognised as a clinical entity by the American Psychiatric Association in its 2013 Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Health Disorders. Nor is it currently recognised by the WHO in its International Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems. The Department contacted the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Commission (24 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: A list of the chairpersons of mental health tribunals appointed as of 1 November 2019 is available on the website of the Mental Health Commission www.mhcirl.ie and can be found at the following link
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Commission (24 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: The allocation of cases is on rotational basis. The system pre Covid-19 was that each member of the panel had indicated the areas in which they could do work and were assigned cases for those areas on a rotational basis. From 30 March onwards, all panel members were assigned cases across the entire country as the tribunals were being held remotely. For further details, please refer to the...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Commission (24 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: I propose to take Questions Nos. 259 and 260 together. Mayo, Galway, Sligo and Roscommon Please find attached the names of the lawyers (solicitors/barristers) who were appointed as chairpersons of tribunals by the Mental Health Commission from 1 November 2016 to 31 October 2019 and from 1 November 2020 to 31 October 2022 in the counties of Mayo, Galway, Sligo and Roscommon. In that regard...
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (29 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (29 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Help Service (29 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond to the deputy directly, as soon as possible.
- Written Answers — Department of Health: Care of the Elderly (29 Sep 2020)
Mary Butler: The Health Act, 2007 provides for an independent inspection and registration system for residential services. On 1 July 2009 Statutory responsibility was given to the Chief Inspector of Social Services, part of the Health Information and Quality Authority for inspecting and registering designated centres for older people. This responsibility was underpinned by a comprehensive...