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Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: Perhaps we could get written replies to the questions asked by Deputy Buckley. I call Deputy Lahart.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: Do you have a response?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: The next speaker is Deputy Stanton.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: Before I call Deputy Buckley and then Deputy Stanton, I will read out a note sent to us by one of our members, Senator Martin Conway, who is unfortunately not on the grounds of Leinster House today. He has asked me to say that he would like the HSE to answer Deputy Stanton's final set of questions and that he would like to register his disappointment about the lack of answers to many of the...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: Our final speaker is Deputy Stanton, if he would like to come in and hear the answers to his previous questions. I am sorry for cutting him off.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: I thank all our members. I have one or two questions before we conclude. It is very upsetting to hear what is happening to the families and residents of the Owenacurra centre. I listened to some of the residents speaking on the radio yesterday. I was extremely moved by how they spoke about the fear and anxiety, and how they feel about being moved out of their home. This is a place that...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: Where will future service users with severe and enduring mental illness be referred for respite or long-term placements if the centre closes?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Services: HSE (21 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: I will finish on this. What the residents and families need now more than anything is certainty. Another drawn out period of uncertainty will only worsen anxiety among those who are most affected by these decisions. For any of us, uncertainty about our accommodation is deeply unsettling. It would be really unfair and unethical to subject a group of people with significant mental health...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19: Discussion (15 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: Thank you. I hope everyone can hear me. I will start by thanking the witnesses for the phenomenal work they have all been doing for the past year and a half. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been at some points in the course of the pandemic. My first question relates to something Senator Hoey mentioned. In their submission the witnesses reference additional or booster doses...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19: Discussion (15 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: Are there any plans for NPHET to scale back on our response capacity, including testing, in light of the success the vaccination programme?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19: Discussion (15 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: I thank Dr. Holohan. I have one final question. As a committee, we heard from a group of medical experts about the importance of vitamin D. As mentioned by Deputy Shortall, we also met with a group on the issue of ventilation. Are these issues that NPHET might consider highlighting in its public messaging campaign? I am delighted to hear that there will be another public messaging...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Covid-19: Discussion (15 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: I thank the witnesses.

Joint Committee On Health: Impacts of Covid-19 on Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: I welcome everyone. Apologies have been received from Deputy Ward and Senator Hoey. Unfortunately, there has been a clash of meetings. We are meeting the Minister of State with responsibility for mental health and older people, Deputy Butler, to provide the sub-committee with an update on the provision of mental health services and how they have been impacted by the pandemic. I remind...

Joint Committee On Health: Impacts of Covid-19 on Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: Gabhaim buíochas leis an Aire Stáit.

Joint Committee On Health: Impacts of Covid-19 on Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: I thank Deputy Hourigan. I call Deputy Gino Kenny.

Joint Committee On Health: Impacts of Covid-19 on Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: I thank the Minister of State and Deputy Kenny. I will now ask a few questions. I hope that is okay with the Minister of State. Some of our members have not turned up today. I have a good few questions. The Minister of State responded in an email to the interim report that we released. We had phenomenal groups that came in earlier this year. They were all private meetings due to the...

Joint Committee On Health: Impacts of Covid-19 on Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: I can come back in and ask the Minister of State the questions I have here. If she wants to go ahead, she has plenty of time

Joint Committee On Health: Impacts of Covid-19 on Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: I am sorry to interrupt the Minister of State but we seem to have lost her sound. I do not know what the problem is. Does she have a headset?

Joint Committee On Health: Impacts of Covid-19 on Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: It is a bit better now.

Joint Committee On Health: Impacts of Covid-19 on Mental Health Services: Discussion (14 Sep 2021)

Frances Black: The Minister of State might move a bit closer to the mic if that is okay.