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- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: I thank Mr. Reid. I want to focus specifically on the progressing disability services for children and young people, or PDS, programme. Last year, the committee heard met with witnesses from the Psychological Society of Ireland, the Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland and the Irish Association of Speech and Language Therapists. They indicated that the current recruitment...
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: Is there no flexibility in terms of how people are appointed? There is a difference between having an approved post and having a post where a person is in place, which may not happen for a lengthy time until that person is actually hired. Is this where the difficulty lies or is it in regard to the advertisements around the grade or seniority of the positions the HSE is seeking to fill?
- Joint Committee On Children, Equality, Disability, Integration And Youth: Children's Unmet Needs: Discussion (Resumed) (22 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: I welcome our guests. I acknowledge Mr. Reid's opening statement in terms of the HSE commitment around providing the appropriate services and support for children in the State and the acknowledgement that the HSE regrets the negative experience of families where the current services may fall short of what is required to meet the needs of children and their families. I will try not to...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: I commend the Minister and the commission on its work on the independent commission's report on the Defence Forces, and the commitment of the Government to ensure the Defence Forces are fit for purpose in the immediate term and seeking to develop a long-term vision beyond 2030. There have been calls for quick movement on the recommendations within the report, and I am aware the Minister...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: On a day that an expert-led discussion on cybersecurity is happening in Dublin around new attack vectors and around geopolitical tension, I draw the Minister's attention to how we should be significantly strengthening the military intelligence and cyber defence capabilities of our Defence Forces. The commission believes cyberspace is a dynamic and rapidly evolving area and will be a key...
- Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Defence Forces (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: 59. To ask the Taoiseach and Minister for Defence the next steps regarding the Commission on the Defence Forces report; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [13330/22]
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: Yes.
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: I ask the Deputy to allow Mr. Reid to speak.
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: Deputy, please allow Mr. Reid to speak.
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: I welcome the witnesses. My first question concerns the appointment of a national lead for youth mental health. Has there been any progress in this regard? Second, may I have an update on the appointment of heads of youth mental health within each of the CHOs?
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: I would like to put it on the record that this is most obvious question the HSE witnesses could have expected to be asked at this meeting in terms of our priorities. Perhaps one of the witnesses from the Department of Health will come in on this.
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: Does Mr. Hempenstall know whether a national lead has been recruited?
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: Can he outline what progress has been made in this regard?
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: Sharing the Vision was published in 2017. As far as I know, recruitment is currently ongoing for a national lead. If Mr. Hempenstall has no oversight of that, it is absolutely incredible. This is the Committee of Public Accounts and this question relates to an important appointment in respect of which he is refusing to give me an update.
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: Perhaps Ms O'Neill can give me an update on the task force committee that was set up by the HSE back in 2018 to drive the recruitment process. How is that recruitment process proceeding?
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: I am short on time. I might ask-----
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: Okay.
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: I thank Mr. Reid but that is not the question I asked. I want to ask Ms O'Connor about recruitment. She previously stated that all vacancies have been filled. Is that correct?
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: In terms of each of the CHOs.
- Public Accounts Committee: Mental Health Services - Financial Statements 2020 (10 Mar 2022)
Alan Dillon: What is that percentage?