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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 1724. To ask the Minister for Health if he projects further reductions in 24-hour staffed residential provision for Cork mental health service users in the next five to ten years as per the arguments put forward at a meeting of the Oireachtas Committee on Health on 14 December 2021 in relation to the closure of the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton, County Cork which according to HSE management are...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (19 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 1740. To ask the Minister for Health the status of the process to register psychotherapists and counsellors pursuant to SI. No. 21 of 2019 of the Health and Social Care Professionals Act 2005 (Section 28A) (Counsellors and Psychotherapists Registration Board Regulations) 2019; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1469/22]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: For clarity, because sometimes the numbers can get a bit complicated, when Mr. Walsh says "continuing on" is there specific funding for 2022 or is that part of another package?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Before I get into my question, I am glad to hear contributions such as Deputy Cathal Crowe's around the citizens' assembly. If there is one thing we have gotten from this session it is that there is a broad spectrum of opinions around what we should be doing on the drugs issue. It is still a fraught and debatable area and that citizens' assembly cannot come soon enough because it would...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: It was 13 January.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Right now the task force has been told that there is no allocation for its group. Mr. Walsh will appreciate that, from a local representative's point of view, it does look like the Department is running down the clock on this. This has been going on since 6 July and the task force is still not in receipt of funds. In any community engagement there is always work to be done on governance...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: National Drugs Strategy: Minister of State at the Department of Health (19 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That is not the issue. Could Mr. Walsh shed any light-----

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 521. To ask the Minister for Health if his Department has made an allocation for the operational budget of the North Inner-City Drug and Alcohol Task Force for 2022; and if this allocation for the North Inner-City Drug and Alcohol Task Force is included in the HSE budget for 2022. [2877/22]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Irish Sign Language (26 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 123. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth the status of the report on the operation of the Irish Sign Language Act 2017; when it will be published; and if he will ensure the final report is published in Irish Sign Language. [3779/22]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Vaccination Programme (26 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 170. To ask the Minister for Health the reason for the delay in offering vulnerable high-risk children aged from 5 to 11 years of age prioritisation for a Covid-19 vaccination following the opening of the HSE online portal for this cohort on 28 December 2021; the reason that those who registered from 4 January 2022 but were not part of the vulnerable high-risk category were offered an...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (26 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: 172. To ask the Minister for Health the progress made to date in relation to the Programme for Government commitment to ensure that mental health services are accessible to persons in the deaf community; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [3780/22]

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: I may not speak for the entire committee but I fully support the idea of zero tolerance for the admission of children to adult facilities. I might bounce around a little in my questions because this is very broad legislation and we have already talked in this meeting about parallel legislation. To return to the issue of consent, I am trying to understand something mentioned in our...

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: It does. I guess the answer is that there is no clarity around who would assess maturity. Mr. Castillo Goncalves mentioned a number of other jurisdictions. Is it the standard in other jurisdictions where this practice is working for there to be an appeals process by that child? Is it possible for the child to appeal an assessment of maturity?

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That is okay. I was wondering if we could talk about guardian ad litem, GAL. I am not a legal expert. I am aware that there is other legislative work being done on the child care (amendment) Bill, which fell in the last Dáil and is now coming back. I would like to understand a little bit more about the interaction of the guardianad litem. I suspect that the answer will be that we...

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: It does, because the wording seemed strange to me. For clarity, then, if the wording was tidied up in this legislation, would the other legislation do the job of ensuring that there is a presumption a child would get a GAL?

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Dr. McAuley is suggesting that there should be similar language in this legislation to the language in other legislation.

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That is a really important point. The committee is well aware that we are constantly referring to other legislation while we are trying to deal with this legislation. I do not want to use the word "frustrating" but it is no small thing. The witnesses' submission pointed us to the report from the UN regarding Ireland and the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. One of...

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: Under mental health on page 12, there is a section called "Suicide". It states: In the light of its general comment No. 4 (2003) on adolescent health and development in the context of the Convention on the Rights of the Child , the Committee recommends that the State party further strengthen its measures on the prevention of suicide, which should take into account the specific needs of...

Joint Committee On Health: General Scheme of the Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2021 (Resumed): Office of the Ombudsman for Children (25 Jan 2022)

Neasa Hourigan: That is the UN statement.