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Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: The Mental Health Commission is an independent regulator established under the Mental Health Act 2001. The Commission has statutory responsibility for supporting and assisting in the development and improvement of mental health services. My Department directed this query to the Mental Health Commission and the following is their response: "As previously stated, the MHC has been...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: The Minister would like to remind the Deputy that the Mental Health Commission is an independent regulator established under the Mental Health Act 2001. The Commission has statutory responsibility for supporting and assisting in the development and improvement of mental health services. My Department directed this query to the Mental Health Commission and the following is their response:...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: In response to the query raised by the Deputy about the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton, the Minister sought assurances from both the HSE and the Mental Health Commission that they had fulfilled their respective obligations. The HSE provided the following assurances to the Minister as set out below: “The HSE CKCH MHS deliver services in line with the requirements for compliance with the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (25 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Healthcare Policy (25 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Data (25 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (25 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: With the aim of supporting healthy, active, and autonomous ageing throughout the life course, the National Positive Ageing Strategy(2013) provides a framework for whole-of-government policy making and service delivery in partnership with the community and voluntary sector. Envisioning a society in which the equality, independence, participation, care, self-fulfilment, and dignity of older...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: My budget does not run for only three months of the year. It runs from 1 January to 31 December and much of the spending happens throughout the year as we recruit. For example, last year we recruited 91 new people to mental health services. Some 10,362 people were working in mental health services in December 2021 and in December 2022 the number was 10,453. The budget runs for the whole...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: The whole purpose of the CAMHS hubs is to prevent people having to travel if they have this option. That is what we are trying to do, to give parents and children more options. With respect to the follow-up of the 140 cases the Deputy referred to that were classed as lost, the team in Limerick informed the Mental Health Commission that it had a significant staffing issue at that time. It...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for raising this matter. The mid-west CAMHS leadership team works in partnership with clinical directors for the national clinical programmes to develop new models of practice to meet the needs of children and families in the mid-west. The HSE has advised my Department that the mid-west community healthcare mental health service has one CAMHS centre in Ennis, which is...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: I know the Deputy is asking this question on behalf of her party colleague but I do not agree the status is unclear. It is crystal clear. On 21 January 2023, the local HSE office received a final report from the team of CAMHS consultants who had carried out the audit. When concerns were raised by the audit team in respect of individual children, immediate contact was made with the families...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: I thank both Deputies for their questions. As I was going to say in response to Deputy Funchion, we are all very aware of the challenges we have in CAMHS throughout the country and of the fact waiting lists are going in only one direction, which the Minister and I are very unhappy about. We speak about it constantly. One thing Deputy Ward did not mention is that there were 33% more...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: If I can answer, 225,000 appointments were given to children in the care of CAMHS last year. Ninety-one people were added to mental health staffing between December 2021 and December 2022. It is not that we are not acting. To drive CAMHS reform, I am holding a series of roundtable discussions with key CAMHS stakeholders. The first meeting, to be held this afternoon, will involve the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Mental Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: I was expecting the Deputy's colleague, Deputy Mark Ward, who is seated beside her, to take this question on behalf of Deputy Pa Daly. Following the publication of the Maskey report, in order to gain assurance about the quality of the CAMHS service being provided in north Kerry, the HSE confirmed a planned sample file audit of 50 files in north Kerry CAMHS would take place. This was a...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (20 Apr 2023)

Mary Butler: Recommendation 36 of Sharing the Vision: A Mental Health Policy for All outlines that appropriate supports should be provided for on an interim basis to service users transitioning from CAMHS to General Adult Mental Health Services and that the age of transition should be moved from 18 to 25. To this end, a Youth Mental Health Transitions Specialist Group has been established by the HSE...