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Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: Some of the concerns that the Mental Health Commission found are there.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: Why has the HSE not produced an interim report and brought it into the public domain?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: In its report, the Mental Health Commission escalated concerns to the HSE; however, as far as I know, the HSE did not escalate them to the Minister of State responsible for mental health. She said that on the floor of the Dáil when I asked a question about it. She knew there were concerns but did not know their nature. To me, that is a big gap. As legislators, we have a...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I have a couple of questions on the transfer from CAMHS to adult mental health services, AMHS. One of the shortfalls identified in the report relates to this. It could have been one of the key factors related to the number of children lost to follow-up. The delegates will agree that most acute mental health illnesses among young adults occur between the ages of 16 and 25. We know that...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: Yes.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: Yes, okay.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: Yes, there is a recommendation in the Sharing the Vision policy to extend this provision out to 25, if I am correct?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I was contacted by a parent during the week and there were also reports in the newspapers concerning a young Irishman who was a patient of CAMHS. He spent more than three years in an adult facility here and has now been transferred over to Britain for treatment. I do not know if the witnesses saw this case referred to during the week. This young man's mother contacted me. She rang the...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: The Courts Service would also be involved.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I might come in again later but I will give another committee member the chance to contribute.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: Dr. Niazi made a comment that the currently vacant consultant psychiatrist post in Kerry is not very popular. What is the reason for that? He suggested we may know it was not very popular. I know it has not been filled, but what is his feeling on that?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I wish to tease something out with Dr. Burke. It was in report that the consultant psychiatrist is the lead, basically. The report advises that it is not international best practice and there are other models of care in relation to multidisciplinary teams. Has there been any consideration given to changing that?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: What would that look like?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: Early intervention was mentioned and how children are getting lower levels of engagement and have lower levels of mental health. We have 13,000 people waiting for a primary care psychologist. There is a 14% increase in young people who are looking for access to Pieta counselling. I met with Pieta representatives last week. They told me children as young as five turn up to the services...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I have tabled a number of parliamentary questions on that and I do not know if the witnesses answered them, but one of them probably did in the end. The feedback I got off the responses was not very positive in moving that direction.

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I have one more question if that is okay. Early intervention and psychosis were mentioned a couple times. I dug out a parliamentary question I tabled on the budget for 2023. The standard response I am getting back at the moment is that the HSE is not in a position to respond to this question regarding the allocation of funding for 2023 as a national service plan is not yet finalised. When...

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: That seems to be a systemic failure on this side of the meeting. Is there any way whoever is allocating budgets could notify the HSE of the anticipated budget any earlier so these plans could be in place early in 2023 or 2024, allowing us to hit the ground running?

Joint Committee On Health: Mental Health Commission Interim Report on CAMHS: HSE (14 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I thank the Chair for allowing me back in.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (9 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: I will bring up the matter of pandemic bonus payments for workers in the Clondalkin Addiction Support Programme, CASP. It is a unique service in Clondalkin whereby a person with an addiction issue can avail of both medical and holistic treatments. Its methadone dispensing clinic caters for approximately 70 clients on a daily basis in respect of harm reduction. This clinic did not close...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Rights of the Child (9 Feb 2023)

Mark Ward: 287. To ask the Minister for Health his views on his recent contributions to the United Nations Committee on the Rights of the Child; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6135/23]