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- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: I appreciate Mental Health Reform's work in that regard and the update on the Government's legislation. Yesterday Mental Health Reform and other groups sought clarification on budget allocations, for example, whether the €25 million not spent last year formed part of this year's €35 million allocation. Has anyone received an update? I spent most of yesterday reading between...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: Hear, hear.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: I sit on the new Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community. Recently, we heard about mental health issues affecting that community, with suicide rates six times higher than in wider society. One of the delegates invited the committee to ask a meeting of Travellers anywhere in Ireland whether they had been affected by suicide. He said nearly every Traveller would raise...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: The point about racism is one we all need to acknowledge and take ownership of. We also need to acknowledge that there might be an unconscious bias. It was embarrassing to sit at a meeting of the Joint Committee on Key Issues affecting the Traveller Community with no Traveller voice on our side of the room. There is a job for all political parties to do in that regard. Seeing oneself in...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: Youth Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (9 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: I apologise because I have to leave. I thank all of the delegates for the work they do in supporting young people.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: I second the amendment.
- Seanad: Wildlife (Amendment) Bill 2016: Report Stage (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: I second the amendment.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: I want to address an issue already raised by Deputy Joan Collins concerning the Traveller health action plan. I understand that a draft plan has been circulated to the community and non-governmental organisations, NGOs, but some people are dissatisfied with the draft plan. Has the Minister of State seen the report? Is he satisfied with the recommendations for mental health? When will the...
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: The Traveller health action plan.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: Senator Freeman has mentioned the all-party Oireachtas joint committee report and its recommendations concerning Travellers. Does the Government intend to implement the recommendations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: When will the all-of-government health action plan be launched?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: I hope that the plan will be launched before the end of term. Did the Minister of State seek increases in the budget in order to address the issue that we are speaking about today? Did he have such conversations?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: I thank everyone for his or her contribution. I hope my question is not stupid. If a member of the Traveller community decides to approach mental health services, can he or she be confident that the person opposite him or her will be a member of the Traveller community?
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: A member of the Traveller community.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: Yes.
- Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: That is interesting. I commenced work on so-called gay conversion therapy and believed the practice was apparent just in rogue groups, some north of the Border and some within the Catholic Church. To my horror, there was a Trinity College Dublin report on negative experiences of mental health services among LGBT people. Obviously, there are lingering effects from criminalisation and...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: I warmly welcome the announcement made by the Minister of State, Deputy Catherine Byrne, last week that a public programme in respect of pre-exposure prophylaxis, PrEP, would be rolled out by the HSE. PrEP is a drug that prevents the transmission of HIV. The State has a very poor record of combatting HIV and transmission rates have been rising. There were 500 new cases last year. I first...
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: On a point of order, there is no RSE in our schools. It is a disgrace.
- Seanad: An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (16 Oct 2019)
Fintan Warfield: There should be RSE in our schools. It is a scandal.