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Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: On the €39 million, the national service plan will decide its allocation. That is something on which I and my officials will have to engage with the HSE-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: We wish. The €39 million is something we will have to address collectively. I cannot prejudge that here and give a commitment to anything specific. However, I repeat that I am open to any suggestions and ideas that will come from this committee in time for that service plan. The discussions on the plan will take place in the next number of weeks so this meeting today is very timely...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I am not familiar with it. John Meehan said he will address that when he is due to speak. I refer to the broader point I made earlier regarding mental health being a symptom. There are serious challenges for society with regard to stigma, people's attitudes and approaches, how they view employment and education, access to employment and education and treating Travellers the same as anybody...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: As well as employment. It is about attitude and stigma as well as challenging society as a whole.

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: Yes, I can. The national service plan will address how we spend €1 billion plus €26 million. It is not just the additional €39 million funding this year. There has been additional funding in the past five to six years of more than €300 million. There is significant funding to be allocated across the board and it is a case of how we do it and what we do, and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: Will the Chairman clarify what she means by the indifference of the State?

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I only can speak for myself. It is not for me to cast my eye over the history of the State's treatment of people. As I have acknowledged, this is a crisis. I am happy to acknowledge that again, but that does not give me or anybody in this room any comfort whatsoever. The State has responded to suicide overall with the establishment of the National Office of Suicide Prevention and Mr. John...

Joint Oireachtas Committee On Key Issues Affecting The Traveller Community: Traveller Mental Health: Discussion (Resumed) (15 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I thank the Chairman very much.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I do not have the local information sought. On homecare services, I referred to the statutory scheme and what we were planning to do to address the lack of personnel. The recruitment of 100 additional therapists has just been completed and will have an impact. I do not know offhand how many are in the Deputy’s area, but if he wants me to find out, I will follow up on the matter for him.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: We are much more than lucky. Last year's budget committed to 100 additional therapists to deal with this specific issue. That recruitment is finalised and those 100 therapists are in place, so we expect that to have an impact. Furthermore, as the Tánaiste mentioned earlier, 1,000 additional community posts, which will include many therapists, will also be provided next year as a...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I cannot specify where they are going to go. That is a matter for the HSE, which will recruit in accordance to need.

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I have stated repeatedly that I do not know how anyone in a mentally distressed state can know what organisation to turn to, and whether they should go to Alone, Aware, Jigsaw, Pieta House, or CAMHS. How are they to know who does what or where to go? Some 1,027 different services are funded by the HSE, and they are trying to promote themselves individually with flyers and brochures about...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I thank the Deputy. The reality is that if we had four times the amount of money provided for in the budget, we would still not have the personnel required to deliver services. The figure for this year is €52 million. That is why I have committed to developing a statutory homecare scheme to be unveiled in January 2020. Next year the pilot statutory homecare scheme will begin. The...

Ceisteanna ar Reachtaíocht a Gealladh - Questions on Promised Legislation (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I can assure the Deputy that we are taking it very seriously. This is World Mental Health Day and I am delighted to announce that the mental health telephone line about which I have talked since I became a Minister of State has gone live today. The number is 1800 742 444 which I hope people will promote and put on their phones. It is a service which will direct callers to the most...

Ceisteanna ó Cheannairí - Leaders' Questions (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: That is not true.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Mental Health Services Expenditure (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: Budget 2019 made allowance for an additional €55 million for mental health services. This comprised €20 million continuing cost in 2019 of developments initiated in 2018, combined with €35 million for further new developments. Since 2012, the mental health HSE budget has been increased by almost 40%. This investment has enabled the HSE mental health services to...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Mental Health Services Expenditure (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: I am not sure from where comes this €25 million being withheld by the Government from the HSE. I saw a tweet from Mental Health Reform to that effect yesterday.

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Mental Health Services Expenditure (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: The Government is not withholding €25 million from the HSE. The full €55 million that was an order of Government was made available to the HSE to spend. There is a process under which the Department releases the funding as it is needed. The Department does not merely throw the €55 million onto the table and say, "Spend that." It is released as it is being spent and...

Ceisteanna Eile (Atógáil) - Other Questions (Resumed): Mental Health Services Expenditure (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: Those one-liners might sound good but the reality is that for every challenge in the system, there are many successes. 11 o’clock We have a budget of €1.026 billion this year, up from €711 million when the Government took office in 2012. It represents an increase of almost €400 million in the budget. We also have the refresh of A Vision for Change. In the...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Home Care Packages Administration (10 Oct 2019)

Jim Daly: Home supports enable older people to remain in their own homes and communities, as well as facilitating timely discharge from hospital.  At the end of August, the HSE had provided over 312,000 hours of home support in Clare and 1,191 people were receiving the service.  However, I acknowledge that in some cases access to the service may take longer than we would like and there were...