Results 11,821-11,840 of 11,899 for speaker:Mary Butler
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 195: In page 92, line 39, to delete “sections” and substitute “section”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 196: In page 93, line 1, to delete “should” and substitute “shall”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 197: In page 93, line 6, after “Where” to insert “, in the opinion of the responsible consultant psychiatrist,”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 198: In page 93, line 19, to delete “view” and substitute “opinion”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 199: In page 93, line 21, after “guardian” to insert “, the Child and Family Agency”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 200: In page 93, lines 25 to 29, to delete all words from and including “(1) Subject to” in line 25 down to an including line 29 and substitute the following: “(1) Subject to subsection (3), the responsible consultant psychiatrist or another member of the multidisciplinary team of a child admitted under section 61, 63 or 65, shall inform the...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 201: In page 93, line 30, to delete “sections” and substitute “section”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 202: In page 93, lines 34 and 35, to delete “consultant psychiatrist responsible for the care and treatment of the child,” and substitute “child’s responsible consultant psychiatrist”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment 203: In page 94, lines 2 and 3, to delete “consultant psychiatrist responsible for the care and treatment of the child,” and substitute “child’s responsible consultant psychiatrist”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: On patient advocacy services, when I took over as Minister of State with responsibility for older people in June 2020, I discovered very quickly that there were patient advocacy services only in public and community hospitals and public nursing homes. I moved very quickly to expand patient advocacy services across all public, private and voluntary nursing homes. I am currently expanding...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 205: In page 95, line 6, after “the” to insert “rights and”. Amendment No. 205 is a technical amendment to include protection of a person’s rights, along with their interests, in the functions of the commission. I do not intend to support amendment No. 206 as this amendment duplicates what is already in the Bill elsewhere. ...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I thank all the Deputies for their comments. The reason why amendment No. 206 is not being accepted is because this amendment duplicates what is already in the Bill. There are 223 sections in the Bill. It is huge and very complex. There is a lot in it and it is hard to take every bit of it in, but that amendment is a duplication. That is the only reason why it is not being accepted. ...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: Sorry to cut across the Deputy. Those are not accepted. It is because their referrals are not accepted.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I have a couple of points to make as I have spoken extensively on the waiting lists. It is important to acknowledge, however, that last year there were 233,000 appointments allocated by CAMHS and approximately 8% or 9% were not attended for a myriad of reasons. For some, they may have aged out and, for others, they may have gone privately, and there may be other reasons they did not attend....
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: In fairness, 97% of all urgent referrals to CAMHS were responded to within three days up to April 2025, and they are the latest figures I have received. What often happens is children might present to CAMHS and whatever diagnosis they have may not be as severe as others and they become the long waiters. That is the area I am not happy about. The other thing is the consultant psychiatrist...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: Some teams accept more referrals while others accept less. All I can say on the floor of the Dáil is my commitment to trying to provide additional funding. We have 81 teams. We have relocated many CAMHS teams into good primary care centres, which have good locations, yet we are still seeing the waiting lists grow. We have 1.2 million young people in the country, whereas five years...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 207: In page 96, line 36, to delete "shall" and substitute "may".
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 208: In page 104, line 15, to delete "section 48" and substitute "section 10".
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 209: In page 105, line 3, to delete “such members of the staff of the Commission” and substitute “such members of the staff of the Commission and the Chief Executive Officer”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Mary Butler: I move amendment No. 210: In page 105, line 7, to delete “former members of the staff of the Commission” and substitute “former members of the staff of the Commission and former Chief Executive Officers”.