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Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Frances Black: Mr. Church referred to telephone calls in the middle of the night. Does he believe there is a connection there with the pressure on families during the Covid period?

Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Frances Black: Is most of the contact done by way of text?

Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Frances Black: I thank Mr. Church. Two more members have joined the meeting. I invite Deputy Lahart to make his contribution.

Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Frances Black: Would Mr. Church like to respond to that question?

Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Frances Black: Would Ms Keane or Ms Connolly like to comment?

Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Frances Black: A UNICEF report was released today that says Ireland has the third highest estimated percentage of adolescents aged between ten and 19 who have mental disorders. I can forward that on to Deputy Lahart. I only just saw it. I have not read it myself but the Deputy might have an interest in it.

Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Frances Black: Perhaps Mr. Church could send the committee that information, so we can move on from this specific point.

Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Frances Black: Thank you. I have a couple of questions that follow on from Deputy Ward’s questions. The first is a question around what supports Barnardos and the ISPCC could use if they had a magic wand. Today, what would they say the ideal is? What would be their ask?

Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Frances Black: Thank you. I have one final question and I will let the witnesses go because I know they have had a long day. Both organisations work with crisis and it is a kind of crisis management to deal with trauma, and people are in a bad way when they contact their services. What recommendations would they have in this regard? Is it within their capacity to run a service that could provide...

Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Frances Black: I have one further question. In my role as Chair of the Joint Sub-Committee on Mental Health, I am getting a lot of inquiries from family members of young girls in particular, for some reason, aged maybe 13, 14 or 15, who are self-harming and have suicidal ideation. We can recommend therapists or CAMHS but the waiting lists are off the Richter scale, even for private therapists. Will the...

Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Frances Black: I thank Ms Connolly for her answer. The sub-committee really appreciates the witnesses coming in at such short notice. My personal view is that we are facing into a tsunami of mental health issues for every age group at this time. I thank the witnesses for the phenomenal work they do and their helpful contributions today.

Joint Committee On Health: Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion (20 Oct 2021)

Frances Black: To what service would you refer them?

Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (3 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: I am here today to raise the same issue I raised two weeks ago, namely, adult safeguarding. I stated then that we are in desperate need of adult safeguarding legislation. That week I was responding to a horrendous report in The Irish Times, which revealed that more than 108 instances of abuse were experienced by adults in a HSE care facility in Donegal and that the HSE not only failed to...

Seanad: Health (Preservation and Protection and other Emergency Measures in the Public Interest) Act 2020: Motion (3 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: The Minister is very welcome. It is only a few short weeks since we gathered in this Chamber to debate the Health (Amendment) (No. 2) Act 2021, which saw the sunset clause on emergency powers extended by resolution until the 9 January 2022. We were all hopeful in the intervening weeks that the epidemiological situation would improve to such an extent that these emergency powers, while...

Joint Committee On Health: Business of Joint Committee (2 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: Before we invite in the witnesses, can I take it the draft minutes of the sub-committee meetings of 8 September and 13 and 20 October are agreed? Agreed.

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Department of Health (2 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: I welcome the officials from the Department of Health, who will brief the committee on the Bill. I welcome Mr. Seamus Hempenstall, principal officer, Ms Lorraine Doyle, higher executive officer, and Mr. James Kelly, assistant principal. Members and all in attendance are asked to exercise personal responsibility in protecting themselves and others from the risk of contracting Covid-19. They...

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021: Department of Health (2 Nov 2021)

Frances Black: We will start with Senator Conway.