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Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Family Resource Centres (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 654. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs her expansion plans for the family resource centre network; and the counties in which she plans to establish new family resource centres. [54068/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Social Workers Recruitment (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 656. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the cost of hiring an additional social care worker. [54070/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Staff (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 657. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the details of the 300 additional Tusla staff who are being recruited to handle mandatory reporting, by job title and pay grade. [54071/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Public Relations Contracts Data (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 658. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the use of external public relations firms employed per annum by her Department since coming into office, in tabular form; the external public relations firm used; the internal departmental policy with regard to employing external groups; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54072/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Departmental Expenditure (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 659. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the photography costs per annum for her Department since coming to office, inclusive of costs incurred from use of the ministerial allowance, in tabular form; the occasions for which photographers were booked; the photographers used; the costs associated with each occasion that a photographer was used; if there is a policy regarding the...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Child and Family Agency Services (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 660. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the average time that children in each county are waiting to be allocated a social worker in cases, including high-priority cases of child protection and children in care. [54074/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Guardians Ad Litem (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 662. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the amount her Department has spent on guardian ad litem services, by provider. [54076/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Funding (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: 663. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs the estimated cost of increasing the number of weeks provided under ECCE by 1 to 8 weeks, respectively. [54077/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the delegates for attending and appreciate them giving of their time. Many of these issues were addressed in the past. Am I correct that Professor O'Connor was chairman of the previous expert panel in 2004?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: The fact finding mission started in 2004 and a substantial 288-page document was produced.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: While we offer accolades for all of the good words that have been uttered at this meeting, they were all committed to paper 13 years ago. As a member of the Joint Committee on the Eighth Amendment of the Constitution, I am stickler for profiling people and conducting research. Page 15 of the document mentioned the need for multidisciplinary teams, to adopt a recovery perspective, to...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I am waiting for two answers, one in respect of a child who presents in a crisis and how he or she can get the acute intervention with a CAMHS team. Second, I addressed a question to Professor O'Connor on her earlier contribution, which has already been identified, and why we have not delivered on it. The roadmap, A Vision for Change, was set out in 2004, but looking at what has been put in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I could not agree more with Professor O'Connor, who mentioned Tusla, but Tusla does not have a fully functioning ICT system, so when we talk about Tusla social care workers or any other workers, they have no way. There is also a data protection issue because they are not currently sharing information with An Garda Síochána or with the GP service.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: Is it in use at this moment?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I could not agree more with Professor O'Connor. One of the problems when a child presents at a GP practice is that the only recourse for the doctor is to refer the child to the child and adolescent mental health service, CAMHS, which must refer the child on. Why can the GP service not make a direct referral to the youth advocate programme, YAP, or whoever is identified as a provider?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: At the moment, if a patient in Galway presents to a local GP, that patient has to be referred to CAMHS.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I am talking from experience. I am working with people on the ground and I can tell Professor O'Connor that it must go through CAMHS. CAMHS operates the referral system and it decides at what stage an intervention is made.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: We are trying to identify and get around road blocks for young people and their parents and to see if we can get the correct early intervention so that when GPs make the referral to acute services, the services are available. We also need to stop it going through the one channel.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I have been a bit parochial because I know a lot of GPs in Galway. There are wellness centres in Galway, as well as positive talk therapy. It is being done really well.

Child Homelessness: Statements (15 Dec 2017)

Anne Rabbitte: I thank the Minister for his presentation this morning. I am speaking through the eyes of the child and will be the voice of the child. We often talk about the voice of the child. We have to think back to two Friday nights ago, when we watched "The Late Late Toy Show". In fairness to "The Late Late Toy Show" and Ryan Tubridy, he included children from homeless positions. It is important...