Results 301-320 of 681 for speaker:Liam Quaide

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (19 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 414. To ask the Minister for Health for the number of reported assaults on HSE staff during the course of their work duties for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024; and to provide any additional information that may be available, such as the breakdown of professions affected, occurrences in mental health services and physical health services and disability services and community and hospital...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (19 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 415. To ask the Minister for Health for the number of HSE staff who had to take in excess of three months’ leave from work after sustaining assaults during the course of their work duties for the years 2022, 2023 and 2024; and to provide any additional information that may be available, such as the breakdown of professions affected, occurrences in mental health services and physical...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 416. To ask the Minister for Health the projected cost of hotel accommodation for former residents of the Owenacurra Centre, Midleton since the building was vacated on October 2023, until the expected end of this arrangement; for an update on works to a house for three residents in O'Dwyer's Road, Midleton; the date the property was purchased; and the date that renovation works began on the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 417. To ask the Minister for Health if she has sought advice on the compliance of a proposed 50-bed set of bungalows for mental health residential services on the grounds of Saint Stephen's Hospital, Glanmire with the UN Convention on the Rights of the Person with a Disability; and from whom she received this advice. [33396/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services (19 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 418. To ask the Minister for Health if the National Council for Special Education accept clinical diagnosing of autism in assessment reports completed by counselling psychologists. [33411/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 419. To ask the Minister for Health the number of psychology training placements funded by her Department for the coming college term from September 2025; and their allocation to each training course in educational, counselling and clinical psychology. [33412/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Parliamentary Questions (19 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 424. To ask the Minister for Health the expected wait-time for parliamentary questions replies to be returned by the HSE to TDs. [33453/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Waiting Lists (19 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 425. To ask the Minister for Health for a breakdown, by regional health area, of primary care child and adolescent service waiting-lists for occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy and psychology; for a breakdown, in years and months, for those young people waiting over 52 weeks; and the longest wait time for each discipline in each regional health area. [33455/25]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Nursing Homes (19 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: 426. To ask the Minister for Health if nursing-homes (details supplied) will be investigated by her Department. [33456/25]

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: Amendment No. 251 passed me by without a chance to comment on it, so I wonder if I could comment briefly now.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: Okay, fair enough.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 213: In page 112, line 37, to delete “consultant psychiatrist” and substitute “qualified mental health professional”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: This is an important amendment. It acknowledges the value of all disciplines in mental health for their capacity to lead mental health services. Leadership roles should be competency based and discipline non-specific, focusing on relevant clinical and organisational expertise, rather than privileging a single profession. It is custom and practice, based on a medical model of mental health...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I speak in support of amendments Nos. 211 and 212. Deputies McGuinness and Clarke made the point about having whole-time equivalent clinicians benchmarked and having that as a basic requirement that the Mental Health Commission adjudicates on for service provision. When the Mental Health Commission is doing an inspection and is writing a report, there is a whole litany of conditions that...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: On a point of clarification, I am seeking the removal of section 83. Is that under consideration at the moment?

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I welcome that the Minister of State is withdrawing the section and her words of caution around it. From my experience in working in mental health services, it is unheard of in recent times for ECT to be administered to young people. I received a reply to a parliamentary question in the past week which outlined its use in the past five years in Ireland. The youngest person who was...

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 166: In page 73, line 25, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 169: In page 78, line 3, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 174: In page 78, line 32, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.

Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)

Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 181: In page 79, line 18, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.