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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: We can debate the recruitment and retention challenges all day long. They are a matter of fact, they exist, so what do we do? They are experienced worldwide and the same acute shortages exist in the Americas and Australia in all health areas but particularly in mental health. Telepsychology could be therapies delivered online. Mental health is unique in that many of the solutions to it...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: I must reply to a Topical Issue matter at approximately 3.30 p.m.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: There is an awful lot there and I am going to have to be very brief as I have to be gone in about ten minutes and will go through them as fast as I can. I have addressed the issue of Linn Dara already this morning, which is an issue of realignment of services. Due to staffing challenges it will start in the summer time. There is a maximum of three people impacted by this. I have looked...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: I appreciate the confusion. I suppose I was prompting the Minister or whatever and we may not have got our message fully across. I will get the Deputy the comprehensive detail on the recruitment process, where each of the 114 originated from and where they have been allocated or whatever. I have been asking the HSE to give me the information on where they are all located. It is just to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: Deputy Corcoran Kennedy asked about social media also. She might be aware that the Government launched a policy this morning to deal with that. That has been very much the focus of Government. It not a health issue or a mental health issue. I have deliberately stood back in that regard. I am involved and very interested in it but it was never for me to take the lead on it because that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: Yes, of course. That is social media. I agree with the Deputy that the psychotherapists are under-used. That is very much the narrative I have been using, which is that we need to talk about the primary care level I have just mentioned. The Deputy asked me about the national educational psychological service, NEPS. The objective is that Pathfinder will allow us realise, with education,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: I am happy to have the time here.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: On the recruitment of the 114 assistant psychologists.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Engagement with Minister for Health and Minister of State at the Department of Health (11 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: That would be in everybody's interest and we will do it through the committee.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Proposed Legislation (12 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 330, 474 and 487 together. The review of the Nursing Homes Support Scheme (NHSS) was published in July 2015. Arising out of the review, a recommendation was made to examine the treatment of business and farm  assets for the purposes of the financial assessment element of the scheme. The Programme for a Partnership Government also committed to...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Beds Data (12 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: 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 Beds Data (12 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: 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: Health Services Provision (12 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: 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 Provision (12 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: 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: HSE Investigations (12 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: 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 Staff (12 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: 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: Palliative Care Services Provision (12 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: 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 Data (12 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: 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 Care Packages Provision (12 Jul 2018)

Jim Daly: I propose to take Questions Nos. 375 and 376 together. As these are service matters I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.