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Written Answers — Department of Health: Disability Services Data (5 Dec 2017)

Tom Neville: 370. To ask the Minister for Health if the HSE will provide a copy of a report of all assessments of nursing requirements at a school (details supplied) in County Kerry; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51836/17]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Long-Term Illness Scheme Coverage (5 Dec 2017)

Tom Neville: 387. To ask the Minister for Health if the FreeStyle Libre glucose sensor and scanner will be made available to persons with diabetes under the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51943/17]

Written Answers — Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine: TAMS Applications (5 Dec 2017)

Tom Neville: 413. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the status of a TAMS application by persons (details supplied); and if he will make a statement on the matter. [51773/17]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Early Childhood Care and Education Programmes (5 Dec 2017)

Tom Neville: 458. To ask the Minister for Children and Youth Affairs if she will address a matter regarding an additional preschool year for a child (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51619/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Payments Administration (5 Dec 2017)

Tom Neville: 476. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if a request by a person (details supplied) to backdate a payment will be considered; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51474/17]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Fuel Allowance Eligibility (5 Dec 2017)

Tom Neville: 510. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the reason fuel allowance is not available to a person whose partner is in receipt of a supported employment scheme payment, such as community employment or TUS; if this anomaly will be reviewed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [51941/17]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Tom Neville: I wish to follow on from Deputy Anne Rabbitte's question on Appendix 5 which I have before me and in which a breakdown is given. There are 114 general adult teams with staffing levels based on population and placed against the recommendations made in A Vision for Change. Has the HSE told us the number of positions that have yet to be filled in the 114 teams?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Tom Neville: On which page is the information? I cannot find it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Tom Neville: For the last meeting the HSE provided a table with answers which was very helpful for me. I was grateful to receive it. Will it do something similar for the next meeting? Can we get figures for the 114 teams, the numbers in each and the numbers of positions that remain to be filled?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Tom Neville: I want to know what the actual position is, rather than the percentages. Can we get an indication of how many full teams are available and where the deficiencies are? Does that make sense?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Tom Neville: If that could be done, it would be fantastic.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Tom Neville: In 2013 I believe €500,000 was to be invested in information technology systems. When the HSE examines the requirements in terms of business functions, with which stakeholders does it consult prior to putting them in place?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Tom Neville: Does the HSE consult exterior stakeholders such as Government bodies?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Tom Neville: There is no exterior interaction with end users.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Tom Neville: That is not my point. I am referring to business functions and interactivity, not user ability. We are asking for figures on CAMHS and other things, but we cannot get them because the systems cannot produce them. Their functionality is not conducive to giving us reports. If we are investing in IT systems, we need to ask what the communications process is between the functional users and...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Tom Neville: Is it not easy enough to give us the figures for which we are looking for CAMHS?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Tom Neville: A sum of €850 million is being spent and I am trying to get a breakdown. I am in the dark on many of the areas in which money is being spent. We received a figure of €5 million for community health care services and are looking for a breakdown of the functions involved. I cannot interpret the nitty-gritty of the details the HSE gave to auditors as I do not have the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Tom Neville: The flexibility of agency staff is attractive but on account of the positions not being permanent, it was not so attractive for the purpose of covering maternity leave contracts. There seems to be a conflict.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Tom Neville: Ms O'Neill mentioned negative media reports and the negative perception of mental health services. A recent report stated the HSE was having a problem in recruiting. Ms O'Neill answered questions about pay and conditions of staff and said there was a perceived lack of educational development in mental health services vis-à-vistheir counterparts. What has the HSE done to combat the...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Future of Mental Health Care: A Vision for Change: Update from Health Service Executive (30 Nov 2017)

Tom Neville: That is not my question. I am asking about the negative perception in the media which blocks people from being recruited.