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Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (21 Feb 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I second the amendment.

Seanad: Services for People with Disabilities: Motion (21 Feb 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I second the amendment.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I thank all of the groups who presented today. The purpose of this committee is to look at the challenges of mental health in Ireland. It is clear that some groups have many more challenges than others and are suffering and experiencing mental health issues disproportionately. The representatives today have spelled it out, in particular the striking presentation from the Migrant Rights...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Mental Health Services: Discussion (Resumed) (14 Feb 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I refer to the specific pathway for young people transitioning, so that they are not directed to child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS. There are problems for people who want to go to CAMHS but cannot, and there are people for whom it is inappropriate. We can examine that and make a specific recommendation.

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I welcome the Minister of State back to the House to discuss mental health in Ireland. I support Deputy Browne's Bill, which takes some very positive and necessary steps to address some of the shortcomings in our mental health system and puts in place some constructive measures to improve it. Action is needed because we have failed to do certain things. Mental health reform has been a very...

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2017: Committee Stage (14 Feb 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I wanted to highlight a letter I received about the response the Minister of State gave me, suggesting that I needed to watch my language because of the effect it might have on people accessing the system. The parents involved, who wrote that letter to me and which I highlighted to the Minister of State, were very upset by his response. They said that instead of watching my language, we...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Medication and Talk Therapy: Discussion (7 Feb 2018)

Colette Kelleher: It seems there is consensus here that talk therapies should be an integral part of the mental health system, particularly at primary care level but also right up through the system. We are all agreed on that and that talking therapies are an alternative to medication. There is some consensus on whether we, as a nation, are over-medicated. There is some division on the question; I have a...

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I will not move or discuss the amendment relating to the review period because that has been superseded by Senator Freeman's amendment. I will discuss the amendment relating to training and I also wish to speak in general terms in support of the Bill. In Ireland today, a significant number of children and young people are living in pain and distress, reflected in poor mental health,...

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I am happy to go with that proposal.

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Colette Kelleher: Yes, but I will resubmit them on Report Stage.

Seanad: Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2016: Committee Stage (7 Feb 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I thank the Minister of State for his explanation. Senator Freeman and I were working in parallel, so we did not realise we were cutting across each other in this way. I accede to the points made. I will submit an amendment on training on Report Stage, because it is a separate and different point. People should not be looking after young children in distress without appropriate levels of...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Colette Kelleher: On behalf of the Civil Engagement group, I thank the Taoiseach for his remarks. I wish him a very happy St. Brigid's day. I am a Taoiseach's nominee and I was reflecting on the Taoiseach's words. I do my very best to bring my experience and knowledge to the service of the Oireachtas and the country as best I can in my role here. The Taoiseach's words on the reform of the Seanad are...

Seanad: Statement by the Taoiseach (1 Feb 2018)

Colette Kelleher: This is another area on which I have to express some concern. With each step forward that Bill takes in the legislative process it seems that we have to take several steps backwards. I hope the Taoiseach will not allow the commercial interests of the alcohol industry weaken this crucial legislation any further, now that it is before the Dáil, and that this Bill, as well as the Domestic...

Seanad: Housing: Statements (31 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I propose to share time with Senator Grace O'Sullivan. Despite what the Minister of State has said and the efforts he has outlined, the Irish housing system is broken. It is broken for the 3,079 children living in emergency accommodation. It is broken for the hundreds of people with leave to remain but who are still stuck in direct provision centres because of the lack of housing. It is...

Seanad: Housing: Statements (31 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: Good. I am glad to hear that and it is on the record.

Seanad: Housing: Statements (31 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: We can have Government radicalism and rethinking about housing. I set out some of my ideas in an article I wrote that was published by the Institute of housing last year. I will leave a copy for the Minister of State. We urgently need an activist and interventionist Government like we had before. We also need Government to make the right interventions. There were some €400 million...

Seanad: Housing: Statements (31 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: They were out-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Community Health Care Organisations: Discussion (18 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: Mr. Reaney and myself worked together around disability issues in a previous life. It is nice to meet Ms Gleeson. The briefing was really clear - the main document and its appendices - so I thank the witnesses for that. I also welcome the ethos around recovery and co-production which they have outlined. It is important to have principles and values guiding decisions. I live in CHO area...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Community Health Care Organisations: Discussion (18 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: That is good to know.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: Community Health Care Organisations: Discussion (18 Jan 2018)

Colette Kelleher: I asked about the services for those aged under 65. That is the issue.