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Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: 7. To ask the Taoiseach if he will report on the work of the National Economic and Social Council. [10086/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: National Economic and Social Council (1 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his update on work of the National Economic and Social Council, NESC, particularly with regard to climate and biodiversity, housing and the shared island initiative. Like all Deputies across this House, I have been appalled by the war of aggression being waged by Russia and now, it would appear, Belarus, against the people of Ukraine. News last week that the...

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: 17. To ask the Taoiseach if he will provide a report on the implementation of the Strategy Statement 2021-2023 of his Department. [11429/22]

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: He does not know the answers to them.

Ceisteanna - Questions: Departmental Programmes (1 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the Taoiseach for his update on the implementation of his Department's Strategy Statement 2021-2023. This morning, the Ukrainian President, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, made an impassioned plea to the European Parliament during which he called for support from his European neighbours as his country resists Russia's war of aggression in Ukraine. It is disappointing to see reports of a number...

Support for the Sovereignty and Territorial Integrity of Ukraine: Motion (1 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I concur and support much of what has been said by my colleague, Deputy Lahart. Like all Deputies across this House, the Irish people and almost everyone around the world, have been shocked and truly appalled by the illegal war of aggression being waged by Russia and now Belarus on the people of Ukraine. The war is a clear breach of the United Nations Charter. It is causing untold...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (3 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I have been contacted recently by a number of constituents who have reported that some insurance companies are asking landlords to provide details on the status of their tenants. Questions they ask include whether they in receipt of the housing assistance payment, whether they are employed, whether they are refugees and whether they are professionals. The response to these questions by the...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (9 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, for taking this question on behalf of the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte, who I know cannot be here. This is a very important and pressing issue in my constituency of Dun Laoghaire. I acknowledge the Minister of State, Deputy Rabbitte's ongoing efforts and engagements with the families, the staff and service users of Dunmore House and...

Saincheisteanna Tráthúla - Topical Issue Debate: Disability Services (9 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I thank the Minister of State for her reply and for a copy of her statement. I specifically did not mention Ravenswell initially because it is part of the problem but that was before the latest news about Wyattville Park. The challenges that have faced Ravenswell have been there for quite some time, and recruitment was an issue long before it became an issue generally in every sector in...

Financial Resolution: Excise (9 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I welcome this initiative by the Government to tackle the skyrocketing rate of inflation we are witnessing, as all consumers are right across the globe. It should be recognised by all Members of this House that this is yet another constructive measure by this Government to assist those struggling individuals, households and businesses at this difficult time. Everyone is affected, not least...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: The risk of flooding for several large swathes of County Dublin and other coastal communities is a genuine environmental threat of which I know the Minister is acutely aware. I am sure he is also aware of the joint report on the status of Ireland's climate, which was produced in 2021, that shows sea levels have risen by 2 mm to 3 mm per year since the 1990s. Will the Minister provide an...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Good morning to Mr. Reid and his colleagues. It is good to have them before the committee again. I thank them for the information provided to date. I will start with Mr. Mulvany on the Comptroller and Auditor General's opening remarks concerning the annual report, which discloses an unaudited figure of more than €1 billion of current expenditure. This was spoken about earlier but I...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I am aware the HSE publishes that but I wonder if there is a way to streamline the process so that the committee does not encounter this problem again when it receives the Comptroller and Auditor General's report on the operation and running of the HSE. Effectively, it says there are two different systems at work. The HSE is accountable to the Department and, ultimately, the Minister and...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I am familiar with that because we have spoken about it before. I am conscious of my time. I turn to the CAMHS issue. Ms O'Connor is welcome back to the committee. I heard what she said about Kerry CAMHS to the effect that it is specific to that area. I do not want to dwell too much on it because it is an active, ongoing case. However, it would be remiss of us not to touch on it while...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Internal oversight is obviously crucial as well. That is where the structures of the national office and the national lead - and I know that Ms O’Neill is on the call and can deal with this as well - are essential. Irrespective of the professional bodies that individuals may belong to, internal structures obviously failed here. They failed significantly over a number of years. I...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: Audit aside, what supports and services are being put in place today for those families?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: On the clinical support team issue, I am glad Ms O’Connor raised that point and I am running out of time but I ask the Chairman for indulgence on this point. My understanding is that prescriptions have not been reviewed and that the clinical support team needed to be in place certainly prior to our guests' appearance before the Committee of Public Accounts. I ask that resources be...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I will take up where I left off at the last round on the clinical support team. Ms O'Connor was discussing the supports that would be put in place for the families and children in Kerry CAMHS. She might send us a note on the updates when she replies to the committee. On overall mental health services, we recall the terrible attack on the HSE and Department IT services. Can we get an...

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: It is in the public domain that over the past couple of years there was old operating software on laptops. Has that all been replaced or are people within the HSE still operating on older systems?

Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)

Cormac Devlin: I thank Mr. Reid for that update. In the minute or so that is left to me, of the 73 CAMHS, I have three in the Dún Laoghaire area in the CHO 6 area. Recruitment has been a perennial problem, particularly for CHO 6 and for the south-eastern part of south Dublin. I ask Mr. Reid, and he can send in a note on this, on the increase in in-patient public beds and, indeed, the increase in...