Results 61-80 of 428 for speaker:Liam Quaide
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I speak in support of amendments Nos. 211 and 212. Deputies McGuinness and Clarke made the point about having whole-time equivalent clinicians benchmarked and having that as a basic requirement that the Mental Health Commission adjudicates on for service provision. When the Mental Health Commission is doing an inspection and is writing a report, there is a whole litany of conditions that...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: On a point of clarification, I am seeking the removal of section 83. Is that under consideration at the moment?
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I welcome that the Minister of State is withdrawing the section and her words of caution around it. From my experience in working in mental health services, it is unheard of in recent times for ECT to be administered to young people. I received a reply to a parliamentary question in the past week which outlined its use in the past five years in Ireland. The youngest person who was...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 166: In page 73, line 25, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 169: In page 78, line 3, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 174: In page 78, line 32, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 181: In page 79, line 18, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 183: In page 79, line 21, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I echo Deputy Clarke's points. The Minister of State said last week that it was important not to tie the hands of psychiatrists in this regard because they often have to make very difficult decisions at critical times and may not have a bed available in a CAMHS inpatient unit. This is a valid concern for a psychiatrist in that particular context. What we are doing here, however, is...
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 159: In page 70, line 19, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 160: In page 70, lines 25 and 26, to delete “mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 161: In page 70, line 31, to delete “mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 162: In page 70, line 33, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 163: In page 71, line 4, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.
- Mental Health Bill 2024: Committee Stage (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I move amendment No. 164: In page 71, line 17, to delete “a mental disorder” and substitute “mental health difficulties”.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I thank the witnesses very much for being here today. In recent years, the problems in children's disability network teams and, indeed, child and adolescent mental health services have been well acknowledged and documented, and there have been efforts to address those. However much of a distance we have to go with that, the first stage is acknowledging the scale of the difficulties....
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I want to take up the point about the psychology trainee posts. An additional 45 psychology trainee placements were announced, which was very welcome. Initially, the psychology managers had been told that, through the pay and numbers strategy, this would not affect recruitment outside of that. I know that in some parts of the country, areas are being asked to forfeit posts in order to make...
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: Yes.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: That is very reassuring. I thank Mr. Gloster.
- Committee on Disability Matters: Progressing the Delivery of Disability Policy and Services: Discussion (Resumed) (18 Jun 2025)
Liam Quaide: I want to raise a frustration that I am experiencing regarding the answering of parliamentary questions. I would be grateful if the HSE could address that locally. On 8 April, I submitted parliamentary questions to all regional health areas separately on primary care psychology waiting lists. I asked for the years and months spent waiting, as well as the longest wait time. What the HSE...