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Written Answers — Department of Transport, Tourism and Sport: Sports Capital Programme (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: 278. To ask the Minister for Transport, Tourism and Sport if he will liaise with the Minister for Education and Skills regarding the need to give schools the ability to apply for sports capital grant funding for a type of development (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [47984/19]

Written Answers — Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht: Departmental Funding (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: 383. To ask the Minister for Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht if funding will be provided to local authorities to assist with the maintenance of roadside hedges in view of health and safety concerns; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48224/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: I welcome our guests and thank them for their work to date. I want to address their role and remit in regulation. Mr. Farrelly stated that the commission's remit extends to only 1% of mental health services across the country. Who regulates the other 99%?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: Is it not extraordinary that 99% of our mental health services are not being regulated with proper policies being enforced against them? The Mental Health Commission produces detailed inspection reports of inpatient units. We often see very serious breaches of regulation and policy within our institutions. What risk do our guests see in the context of services that are not being regulated...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: Does Mr. Farrelly agree that the regulations should be extended to cover all mental health services?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: Mr. Farrelly referred to the role of director of mental health, which was stood down a short while ago. I hear consistently across different aspects of mental health services that this has had a detrimental impact on the delivery of services within the mental health sector. The commission has called for the role to be re-instated. Have the witnesses seen, in practical terms, a real impact...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: It was put to me by somebody in the mental health sector that the consequence is that policy and operations are almost separated out. When a director was there, he or she could knock heads together if things were not joining up across the country. Would that be fair to say?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: Very good. I just want to touch on the issue of the appointment of non-specialists as consultants. This was not mentioned in the opening statement so I hope our guests do not mind me raising it. I refer to the big issue whereby people who are not qualified in psychiatry are being appointed as consultants. What impact is that having? The President of the High Court has stated that this is...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: That is it. To qualify as a specialist, doctors go through extensive training. Even in terms of leadership, it was described to me how a person who had to have a nurse help them to put an IV in one week was leading an entire team the next week. That just seems absolute madness.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: As well as being a breach of human rights, that would strike me as something that would be extremely stressful for people who are already vulnerable and in a difficult situation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: I want to raise the Health Research Board, HRB, statistics on psychiatric units and hospitals. It may be a bit of a quirk but in the 2018 HRB report, in respect of admissions for children and adolescents, it is stated that while its statistics are in respect of every child under the age of 18, the Mental Health Commission is restricted by the 2001 Act and only includes children under 18 who...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: According to the HRB, County Donegal has an admission rate of 484 per 100,000 while County Monaghan has a rate of 187 per 100,000. Donegal has two and half times the admissions as Monaghan while the two counties are relatively close to each other in terms of population. Monaghan also has the highest suicide rate, according to the National Office of Suicide Prevention. I also hear that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: Perhaps the point is that we need to do more research as to why we have those statistics; maybe there is a lack of explanation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: Jigsaw published some startling facts yesterday. That organisation does fantastic work and needs additional funding to expand because it is meeting a need that is not otherwise being met. It allows self-referrals, which is important. It stated that the number of children being prescribed psychiatric medication has increased by nearly 500% over the past decade and Professor Brendan Kelly...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: In a recent incident in Waterford a 16 year old boy spent 40 hours in the emergency department at the weekend, 24 hours of it on a chair. He also suffers with autism so he spent most of the time with a blanket over his head because the bright lights, distress and the movement around him were very stressful for him. Not only was that an outrageous situation, but it is also striking than when...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: Another issue that consistently arises is the lack of integration between CAMHS and primary care or psychiatric services and primary care. I am aware from talking to some managers that a lack of integration is probably to put it too loftily as very often they do not even talk to each other. How do we address that? What is the impact of the complete lack of integration between the different...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: The last issue is accommodation. Providing accommodation to patients in the mental health services was transferred a couple of years ago from the HSE to the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government. In fact, when I was told that, I contacted one of the county councils and it was news to the housing section in that county council. People there had never received any information...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: My advice to families or patients is that the only way it seems possible to get accommodation resolved for somebody who is leaving a psychiatry department is to refuse to leave the hospital under any circumstances until it is resolved. If one walks out the door it becomes almost impossible but if one refuses to leave, the department will find some way to resolve the housing situation.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Workforce Planning in the Mental Healthcare Sector: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

James Browne: Thank you, Chairman.

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Technological Universities (19 Nov 2019)

James Browne: We need to see more leadership from the Government on this in terms of bringing together the institutes of technology and ensuring that a technological university for the south east is developed. It is a major region without a university and this is impacting dramatically. We have one of the worst socio-economic areas in the country with persistently high unemployment and persistently high...