Results 1-20 of 44 for kerry speaker:Róisín Shortall

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Update on Neurorehabilitation Healthcare, Primary Care Centre Programme and CAMHS: HSE (3 Jul 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...then clearly, there will be more people looking for the CAMHS services. Councillor Liam Quaide, a colleague of mine, was in touch with me recently. He said that with regard to the Cork-Kerry area, he got figures recently which showed that in that area alone there are 5,000 children on waiting lists for primary care psychology services. Looking at the detail of that, 1,500 children in...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Implementation of Sláintecare Reforms: Department of Health and HSE (8 May 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...that they are standardised across the country. There has, understandably, been a lot of political focus on child and adolescent mental health services, CAMHS, because of what emerged in south Kerry and so on. The whole area of primary care psychology services has been very much overlooked. I will look at area 4, and Cork, in particular. I saw figures recently and there are now over...

Child and Youth Mental Health: Statements (29 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...to reforming the 2001 Act within its lifetime. After all, neither the Department nor the HSE is known for its ability to stick to timelines. For example, completion of the first phase of the north Kerry CAMHS look-back is well overdue. That was supposed to be completed by the end of 2023. This ongoing delay is extremely distressing for families engaged in the process, especially as...

Mental Health (Amendment) Bill 2023: Second Stage (Resumed) [Private Members] (27 Feb 2024)

Róisín Shortall: ...CAMHS. We must not forget that the sorry state of this service only came to light because of a whistleblower, Dr. Ankur Sharma, who was brave enough to speak out about the problems in County Kerry. Rather than encouraging an open culture - and this is a huge mark against the culture within the HSE - we again see those who speak being ostracised. This is why, along with the immediate...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (19 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: 341. To ask the Minister for Health for an update on the review of North Kerry CAMHS, including information on the scope of the review, areas or periods it may exclude; the expected timeline for its completion; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [45907/23]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Review of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Discussion (11 Oct 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...Professor Lucey on his appointment, a very important one, and wish him well in that role. It is important to note the fact that what was going on with the serious difficulties in south Kerry and the subsequent issues that came to light came to light only because of a whistleblower. We should keep that front and centre in our minds. The subsequent response to the whistleblower and his...

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (31 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...Government. It should address this issue. Why has the money not been spent? Is it because we have awful recruitment procedures within the HR section of the HSE? Regardless of whether a post is in south Kerry or north-west Donegal, and irrespective of how much priority attaches to the post in the view of local management, approval for the post must be obtained from Dublin and somebody...

Capacity in the Health Services: Motion [Private Members] (18 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...the way it functions. It is quite a dysfunctional organisation. It is highly centralised. It is a command-and-control organisation and hierarchical. When something goes wrong, whether in south Kerry, north-west Donegal or wherever, the CEO comes on the airwaves apologising and promising us a report. We cannot function like that. It disempowers managers down the line and means that...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: General Scheme of the Health (Termination of Pregnancy Services (Safe Access Zones)) Bill 2022: Department of Health (Resumed) (18 Jan 2023)

Róisín Shortall: ...and has been referred to already is the issue of a warning. If one were trying to tease that out from an operational point of view, how would that work? If somebody was protesting in County Kerry, from the point of view of a record, how would a garda implementing this legislation in County Galway know that person previously had a warning? The issue was from an operational point of view....

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: Sláintecare Implementation: Discussion (15 Jun 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...of corporate accountability and clinical accountability. I have always felt that it did not make sense for Mr. Reid to be apologising and explaining for something that was happening in south Kerry or north-west Donegal or whatever. There must be accountability at local level, both corporate and clinical. I can see there being resistance to the clinical accountability principle. Has the...

Select Committee on Health: Patient Safety (Notifiable Patient Safety Incidents) Bill 2019: Committee Stage (10 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: This is probably the most important element of the legislation. Deputy Cullinane referred earlier to our experience in this committee with the south Kerry CAMHS issue. At that meeting, we were trying to get to the point where we could identify who was in charge and who was responsible. It was impossible to do that because there was no clear chain of command at all. There were various...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I welcome our guests. I will stick with south Kerry because it is important that we establish exactly what went wrong there. If we do not do that, we will not learn lessons for future practice. Ms O'Connor stated that the Maskey report had identified a number of deficits in respect of governance, supervision and oversight, clinical practice and administrative processes. Will she talk us...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: For the governance of CAMHS in south Kerry.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...line managements. Is it clinical? Is it administrative? Who does the buck stop with ultimately? That is the question. Will Ms O'Connor send us a diagram of the governance structure in south Kerry? I do not want to spend any more time on this issue because it is exceptionally confusing. I can well understand how issues arise. The Maskey report refers to the area A governance group,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: I reiterate my request for a diagram showing the management structures of CAMHS in south Kerry. I ask that we get that as soon as possible. The personnel changed in 2020. Who were the chief officer and the ECD responsible for south Kerry CAMHS up to 2020?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: That is beside the point. I am asking who in south Kerry was responsible for reassigning Dr. Sharma to administrative duties.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: This is a management action that was taken by somebody in south Kerry. Who took that decision? How did it happen that Dr. Sharma was reassigned?

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Health: South Kerry Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services: HSE (2 Mar 2022)

Róisín Shortall: -----and I think we deserve an answer to it. This is about establishing accountability for the awful treatment of so many children in south Kerry. Unless we can get to the bottom of that and find out what was done, or not done, in response, as well as what the response was to the whistleblower, we are never going to learn lessons from this. I am asking about the treatment of the...

Protected Disclosures (Amendment) Bill 2022: Second Stage (Resumed) (16 Feb 2022)

Róisín Shortall: ...the treatment of whistleblowers. I want to mention one particular case that arose recently with regard to the serious shortcomings in the child and adult mental health services, CAMHS, in County Kerry. While a report was carried out on that, we did not hear anything about what will happen about the whistleblower who really put his neck on the line and ended up leaving the HSE. He was a...