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Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Provision (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 247. To ask the Minister for Health why child and adult mental health services is not extended to adolescents between 16 and 18 years of age; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17623/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 248. To ask the Minister for Health the number of children with mental health difficulties who have been admitted to adult units in the past 12 months; the adult units here that children have been sent to in the past 12 months; the length of time each child stayed in the adult unit; if she will include a breakdown of the hospitals and number of admissions; and if he will make a statement on...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Data (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 249. To ask the Minister for Health if there has been any reported incidents of violence between adults and children in psychiatric units in the past four years; if so, how many and the type of violence; how this was dealt with; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17625/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Staff (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 250. To ask the Minister for Health the number of consultant psychiatrist vacancies currently within the child and adult mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17626/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Expenditure (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 251. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the other health services which benefited from the recent redistribution of €12 million in the recent health budget previously earmarked for mental health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17627/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services Expenditure (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 252. To ask the Minister for Health the mental health budget spending in 2015; if funds were left over; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17628/16]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (22 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 253. To ask the Minister for Health the service level agreements that were created between the Health Service Executive and private mental health facilities in 2015; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [17629/16]

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: Ten minutes is too short.

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I know, but we would want to get these rules changed because we are either going to have a substantive debate or we are not. Ten minutes to me is just not enough, it is crazy------

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I thought we always had 15 minutes.

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: You are not. The Acting Chairman is a saint and I am not casting any aspersions.

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: With regard to agriculture and access to the below cost credit, I hope the Taoiseach's colleagues on the European Council really realise how grave the agriculture situation is. Our farmers are in dire trouble and there is real concern about the situation. The issue needs to be raised at the meeting next week.

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I will just conclude, if I may. A vote for "Remain" is a vote for a positive vision of the future. A vote for "Leave" is at best a dramatic risk and more likely a return to a time defined by destructive competition between nations. Such a vote would be cheered by the extreme right and extreme left as well as authoritarian countries. Whatever happens, we should agree that next...

Pre-European Council: Statements (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: It is important to express our solidarity with the family, community and political colleagues of Jo Cox. The murder of a public representative is a truly shocking event, particularly in a democracy, and many people were genuinely saddened and shocked by the event. The British Labour Party has lost a rising star who was passionate about politics and about issues outside purely party politics...

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: I was due in Belfast on Friday but because of the murder of Jo Cox, I had to curtail my canvassing, as did the Deputy. I am very concerned about the absence of contingency planning. In the discussions I had with the Independents on the formation of Government, it was very clear to us that very little scenario planning in terms of the economy or the impact on agriculture had been undertaken...

Ceisteanna - Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: On a point of order - I know that there are new Standing Orders - some questions were sent for written answer and therefore transferred out. Under new Standing Orders, each leader is entitled to three oral questions, and it was understood that no Member may put down more than three questions to the Taoiseach for oral answer on any one day. I submitted at least three questions. Two were...

Ceisteanna - Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: The two questions of mine that were transferred out related to the Taoiseach's letter to the President of the European Commission. If the Taoiseach writes to the President of the European Commission, the subject matter of that letter should be allowed as a question, but they were transferred out.

Ceisteanna - Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: It was transferred from the Department of the Taoiseach to the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform.

Ceisteanna - Questions (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: It concerns the Taoiseach's letter to the President of the European Commission.

Ceisteanna - Questions: UK Referendum on EU Membership (21 Jun 2016)

Micheál Martin: 3. To ask the Taoiseach the status of his visit to the United Kingdom to ask Irish persons there to vote for it to remain in the European Union. [16954/16]