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Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: On page 66 of the programme for Government, the Government committed to increasing funding for mental health services, but we have once again only seen €15 million in additional funding this year, with €20 million carried over from last year. My question is simple: will the Government commit to spending and providing extra money for mental health services?

Questions on Promised Legislation (25 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: There was €35 million-----

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (24 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: 269. To ask the Minister for Health the mental health budget adjusted for population growth and increase in demand by year in tabular form (details supplied). [44962/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Update on the Next Stages of the Review of A Vision for Change: Department of Health (19 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: I have a number of questions and will try to ask them as quickly as possible. I do not want to see the work of this committee running parallel to any other review. There have been too many reviews of reviews of reviews. We already had reports from the psychiatric nurses and the Royal College of Surgeons. We had a review of A Vision for Change and we are talking about another. We have an...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Update on the Next Stages of the Review of A Vision for Change: Department of Health (19 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: I thank Mr. Kane for being very frank. While we spent considerable time today talking about this, we must remember that this committee is a driving committee, not a talking committee.

Local Authority Boundaries Review: Motion [Private Members] (17 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: I thank the Leas-Cheann Comhairle for the opportunity to speak tonight. We might get Deputy Healy-Rae a Cork passport. I have one - they were given out a number of years ago. It goes to show how big is Cork county. I acknowledge that Cork city has long outgrown its 1965 boundary. I also acknowledge, however, that a merger of both the city and county councils would not be in the...

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Commemorative Events (17 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: 240. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht her plans in the lead up to the 95th anniversary of the execution of Liam Mellows by the Free State in Mountjoy Gaol to issue a State apology to the families of the at least 77 persons executed in this period (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [43452/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (17 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: 343. To ask the Minister for Health the expenditure on mental health in 2017; the equivalent figures on a like-for-like basis in terms of services provided in each of the years from 2011 to 2016 taking into consideration reclassifications of expenditure between those dates. [43698/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (17 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: 344. To ask the Minister for Health the increased funding announced for mental health in line with the programme for Government commitment in each of the years 2012 to 2016 and to date in 2017; and the amount of that funding for each calendar year that was actually drawn down or spent on mental health services, in tabular form. [43699/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Funding (17 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: 345. To ask the Minister for Health the amount the €35 million in additional funding for mental health announced in budget 2017 that was spent in the 2017 period; the amount that was included in the expenditure figure for 2017; the amount that was carried over into the budget 2018 figures announced recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [43700/17]

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: That is fantasy.

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: I echo what Deputy Cullinane said. I wish to focus specifically on mental health funding. The budget made little mention of what funding would be available apart from a measly €35 million to be put into mental health services. Unfortunately the Government did not clarify if this was additional money or whether the €20 million announced in last year's budget would be carried...

Financial Resolutions 2018 - Financial Resolution No. 4: General (Resumed) (12 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: This is the second time this has happened to us.

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Community Employment Schemes Operation (10 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: 685. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection her plans to allow persons with mental health problems who wish to stay indefinitely on community employment schemes with the support of their health care providers do so; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [42874/17]

Water Services Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: It seems like a very long time ago that Sinn Féin started to raise the alarm about water charges and water privatisation. We had always maintained vigilance against the creeping privatisation agenda of Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael but we rightly saw in the economic chaos caused by the mismanagement of the economy and banking system what some would relish as an opportunity to asset...

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: I do not want to cut across the Minister but it is mandatory.

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: I will share my time with Deputy Martin Kenny.

Social Welfare, Pensions and Civil Registration Bill 2017: Second Stage (Resumed) (4 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: We will work it out. I welcome the thrust of the Bill. I wish to raise with the Minister some points on it, on some of which she will agree, on others she will not, and on others of which she will laugh. She will be looking forward to hearing those. There is a provision for the setting of reduced fees for birth certificates and death certificates. Surely an arrangement could be...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Early Childhood Care and Education (4 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: 133. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42047/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: General Medical Services Scheme (4 Oct 2017)

Pat Buckley: 134. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to the case of a person (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [42048/17]