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Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Professionals and Assisted Dying: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: Good morning to Dr. Crowe and good evening to our doctors "down under" in New Zealand. This has been a very informative session. We have examined the template in Australia and New Zealand. The different compartments, so to speak, around assisted dying have been in evolution in the past four to five years. In the case of New Zealand, it has been by a popular vote, where the majority of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Professionals and Assisted Dying: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: Dr. Chapman just wants to come in briefly

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Professionals and Assisted Dying: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: This has been a very informative session about assisted dying in other jurisdictions, in New Zealand and Australia in this case. What has come across is that what is happening in New Zealand and Australia is highly regulated. There are some variations in each state in Australia and also in New Zealand. It is clear that assisted dying works. The vast majority of people even though they may...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Professionals and Assisted Dying: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: What about Australia?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Assisted Dying: Healthcare Professionals and Assisted Dying: Discussion (23 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: Would Dr. Allcroft say that in certain circumstances, palliative care and assisted dying are complementary? Is this a good thing to say?

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (18 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: 17. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) has stated that 122,879 patients, including 3,494 children, were admitted to hospital without a bed in 2023, that hospitals are in a near constant state of overcrowding coupled with short staffing; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1648/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Cannabis for Medicinal Use (18 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: 24. To ask the Minister for Health if he will consider expanding the Medicinal Cannabis Access Programme to include other conditions outside of the current terms of reference of the programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1651/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: National Treatment Purchase Fund (18 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: 25. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that in December 2023 an organisation (details supplied) stated that the latest National Treatment Purchase Fund figures confirm that the three main health care waiting lists are at a virtual standstill; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1647/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Overcrowding (18 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: 36. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that an organisation (details supplied) has stated that hospitals are in a near constant state of overcrowding coupled with short staffing; if he will lift the health service recruitment freeze; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1649/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (18 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: 57. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware that the NCHDs in an organisation (details supplied) have said that they expect to call a ballot for industrial action in response to the recruitment freeze announced recently; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1650/24]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: I thank the representatives for their ongoing work on this very important issue. A number of months ago, representatives from the Mental Health Commission were in this very room and I asked them about their report. To say the least, their report was quite damning and unsettling in terms of the provision of child and adolescent mental health services and I asked whether CAMHS in its present...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: That is my next question. I want to discuss the private sector in terms of assessment of needs and so forth. How confident is the group in certain groupings and individuals in terms of assessments? It is quite arbitrary. The Mental Health Commission in its report said there was no regulation at all. If there is no regulation at all in terms of the assessment of a child then alarm bells...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: How much would that assessment cost?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: The assessments may not be accepted by CAMHS.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: My God, that is unbelievable.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: The parents have spent all that money getting all the assessments and therapy but when their child eventually gets into CAMHS-----

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Families for Reform of CAMHS (17 Jan 2024)

Gino Kenny: Is it the case that when a child is in CAMHS, and they have had assessments, the professional in CAMHS will not accept the assessments or they think it is the wrong diagnosis or the wrong path?