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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Mental Health Services: Seanad Public Consultation Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: Does the Senator anticipate questions or observations at this point?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Mental Health Services: Seanad Public Consultation Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: Perhaps the members could wait until the end for questions, comments, expressions of thank you or any revelations that anybody might have. We will move on to the next witness, who is Mr. Gareth Noble. He is very welcome.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Mental Health Services: Seanad Public Consultation Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I thank Mr. Hughes. I am cognisant of the time and Dr. Geoffrey Shannon has been waiting for a while. Does anybody have very short questions?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Mental Health Services: Seanad Public Consultation Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I apologise to Deputy Neville, but I am really under pressure.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Mental Health Services: Seanad Public Consultation Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I will take the final question.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Mental Health Services: Seanad Public Consultation Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: What was the word Deputy Ó Laoghaire used?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Mental Health Services: Seanad Public Consultation Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I will have to cut this short. Have everyone's questions been answered adequately?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Mental Health Services: Seanad Public Consultation Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I thank the witnesses for their presentations. Making the criteria for clinical nurse specialists and advance nurse practitioners less stringent will absolutely improve the services. I thank Mr. Peter Hughes for mentioning homelessness. Almost 3,000 children are homeless tonight in our city. Go raibh míle maith agaibh. Let us progress and mind our children. I will suspend the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Children's Mental Health Services: Seanad Public Consultation Committee (28 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I was looking forward to hearing Dr. Shannon's presentation. I am delighted he is on the side of children. He has swept away the politics and engaged in straight talking in claiming the independence of his office. He has been very strong on that and about not being influenced. We have been comprehensively dealing with a Public Health (Alcohol) Bill in the Seanad. I regret that the...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I will do my best to be brief.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I say, "Well done" to Lauren, Paula, Louise, Sinéad and Martina. I introduced myself as having a long career in psychiatric nursing. On this side of the Seanad, a lot of us are really working hard. Senator Joan Freeman is making sure that we really work hard and give our hearts to making sure our mothers, fathers and siblings are all safe and our children are safe. To start off, I...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: Okay, I am just making an observation.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: There are lots of themes emerging. They say it is the family, it is the children. Where are the supports for families? It seems they are just left behind. Even if the services eventually get to the child who is having difficulties, the family is never addressed. When the child gets to the hospital, it wants to discharge him or her and says it is up to parents who have no plan and who are...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I know it was in an adult context but in the 1990s we set up a crisis intervention team with the nursing union and the HSE that worked within the community. It was very successful. It stopped admissions to hospital. It proved financially prudent and it provided care. I would go a person's home, as a professional, and sit with him or her until the crisis was gone or until that person said...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I will go back to the idea of integrated care and placing it within our communities in order that it is normalised and not stigmatised. The creeping professionalisation of specialisms has taken place in the past 25 years and it serves the professional rather than the people. People cannot see beyond their own silo. There is hope in that the Health Service Executive agreed recently to a...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I will speak first.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: It has been an interesting day. We deal with these matters in terms of questions concerning mental health facilities at the Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs, which is ongoing. In the context of mental health reform, the priority is approved centres. Therefore, we have a dearth of child and adolescent mental health services because we have to go with the approved centres in the...

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I am proud that this has happened in the Seanad. We are the Upper House, by the way, not the Lower House.

Seanad Public Consultation Committee: Children's Mental Health Services: Discussion (29 Jun 2017)

Máire Devine: I am absolutely proud. Mr. Hughes referred to the clinical nurse specialist and advanced nurse practitioner roles and how we have to bring down the criteria. There are many easy solutions there. I want to end with the two words that simplify the crisis: Linn Dara. I have raised it every day in the Seanad on countless occasions. I keep throwing the name out and keep accosting Ministers...

Seanad: Report on Dying, Death and Bereavement: Statements (4 Jul 2017)

Máire Devine: I welcome the Minister and those in the Gallery. I received the questionnaire on death, dying and bereavement, and shuddered and stayed away from it for a while. Given the tenacity of Senator O'Donnell, I managed to fill it in. I am delighted that the report has been presented to the Seanad. I wish to continue the poetic sense which is probably right for the end of life. In his...