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

Róisín Shortall: The witnesses are very welcome. I thank them for the incredible work they are doing. The survey is very useful. It is from the coalface and it provides a very clear analysis of the situation and what needs to be done to rectify it. The Department and the HSE should be indebted to them for coming up with that data. The findings are also absolutely in line with those of the Mental Health...

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

Róisín Shortall: I take it Families for Reform of CAMHS agrees with that number one priority.

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

Róisín Shortall: Ms Ní Ghiolla Mhairtín drew attention to the issue of children with autism and their exclusion from CAMHS. When the group raised that with the HSE and the Department, what was their response to that issue? It seems to be an issue that could be corrected. It would seem it is a policy issue.

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

Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses very much.

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

Róisín Shortall: I think that is very clear and something the committee can pursue actively. I agree with earlier speakers that we will now take this on as an urgent issue. It is one thing to be sympathetic with a group but Families for Reform of CAMHS is speaking to people who can do something about it. What in the view of Families for Reform of CAMHS are the main obstacles to reform at this point?

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

Róisín Shortall: I have a few more issues to raise if the witnesses do not mind. It has been a long morning and they are probably keen to call it a day. On the last point about being warned about not giving out about CAMHS and the effect that might have on recruitment, that kind of secrecy is an old ploy to keep people quiet and also underlines the need for outside regulation by the Mental Health...

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

Róisín Shortall: Okay.

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

Róisín Shortall: My final question is on the recommendation that was made for out-of-hours services running seven days a week. That was a recommendation from the 2019 HSE service plan. We know there are not alternative options for people other than, in the main, going to EDs, which are totally inappropriate. Has there been any extension at all of hours or days of working within CAMHS?

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

Róisín Shortall: I thank the witnesses very much.

Written Answers — Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment: Work Permits (17 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 438. To ask the Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment if he or the Minister of State with responsibility for Business, Employment and Retail will meet with an organisation (details supplied) in relation to changes to the work permit scheme for non-EEA healthcare assistants; the steps he is taking to address the concerns raised in correspondence; and if he will make a statement on the...

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Social Welfare Eligibility (17 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 896. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if financial supports are available for self-employed people with disabilities, similar to the wage subsidy scheme for people with disabilities; if not, if she plans to introduce such a scheme; if not, plans, the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [56997/23]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Disability Services (17 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 1416. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if there is any legal obligation on large retailers to provide disability trolleys in their stores; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1224/24]

Written Answers — Department of Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth: Departmental Funding (17 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 1417. To ask the Minister for Children, Equality, Disability, Integration and Youth if an allocation under the new youth employability scheme will be made to an organisation (details supplied), given that the special purpose grant allocated to the organisation for its Employability Support Programme expired at the end of 2023; if he will provide a timeline for the allocation of such funding;...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Hospital Procedures (17 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 1509. To ask the Minister for Health if he is aware of public hospitals refusing GP referrals for DEXA scans (details supplied); the reason for this policy in a number of hospitals; the steps being taken to address this; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56579/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Services Staff (17 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 1550. To ask the Minister for Health his views on the number of doctors in HSE consultant posts that are not on the Irish Medical Council specialist register for the specialty they are practising in (details supplied); his views on the potential for patient safety issues; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [56773/23]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Primary Care Services (17 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 1593. To ask the Minister for Health the reason letters are being sent to parents informing them that their child will be removed from primary care waiting lists unless they return a form within two weeks (details supplied); the rationale for this short timeframe of two weeks; if this practice is applied consistently across the country; if there is any recourse for parents who do not see this...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Health Service Executive (17 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 1689. To ask the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question No.150 of 15 November 2023, whether the Health Service Executive pensions section in Manorhamilton is now fully staffed and in a position to process all pension matters for retired HSE workers in a swift and timely manner; if not, if he will outline the reason why and the steps being taken to address this; and if he will...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Schemes (17 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 1744. To ask the Minister for Health if consideration will be given to adding motor neurone disease (MND) and Kennedy's disease, which is rare but very similar to MND, to the list of medical conditions covered by the long-term illness scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1642/24]

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Strategies (17 Jan 2024)

Róisín Shortall: 1745. To ask the Minister for Health to provide an update on the National Service Plan 2024; if the HSE has submitted the NSP to him for approval; the timeline he is working towards in approving the NSP; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [1643/24]