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Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I thank Deputy Kenny for raising this serious with dermatology and other services in Sligo University Hospital. I will speak with the Minister for Health later this afternoon and get a written response to him. I am not over the detail of that. We will get him a response later today or early tomorrow morning.

Ceisteanna ar Pholasaí nó ar Reachtaíocht - Questions on Policy or Legislation (25 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for raising this really important issue of cancer care. While still too high, cancer mortality rates in Ireland are falling faster than the EU average, having fallen by 17% between 2011 and 2021 compared with the EU average of 12%. Five-year survival rates for patients have greatly improved since the first national cancer strategy. They are 65% for patients who received...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I will provide a short example of how the step-down beds work. In University Hospital Waterford, we have 48 step-down beds in various nursing homes into Wexford, up to Clonmel and in the whole hinterland. As a result, we have had zero trolleys with the last four years because we have those step-down beds. They are absolutely crucial. A patient deemed discharged by the consultant who still...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for her question. I will respond in reverse. I have not yet seen the feasibility study for the mother and baby unit at St. Vincent's hospital. There are two different thought processes in that regard. There was a perception that the new unit might be included in the new maternity hospital when it is built. However, I need a short-term solution in the meantime. We are...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: In respect of inpatient beds for CAMHS, there is capacity in the sector at the moment. Some beds are closed because we do not have enough nurses to staff them. Those beds are funded but there is a safe staffing issue. According to the most recent figures I have, which are for 17 June, the waiting list nationally to access CAMHS inpatient units was three. Of the available 51 inpatient...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: There is funding for staff. There have been closed beds at Lindara in Cherry Orchard for the past two years. I have engaged with the Psychiatric Nurses Association. Many of the staff who work in mental health in the inpatient units are newly qualified and young. It is a tough job. They are dealing with very ill people. I compliment the staff in the inpatient units. Many people do not...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: We all realise that emergency departments are not the ideal places for somebody in acute mental health distress. Some hospitals are able to provide alternatives. We are looking at investing more this year in crisis resolution teams in Solas cafés to support people so that the emergency department is not the first resort. We have supports open in Galway and Cork, with another to open...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for his question about Kerry CAMHS and his co-operation and support for all the families who have been affected by this situation in Kerry over many years. We have had huge number of engagements. I will provide an update on the initial report in January 2022. There were 240 young people who did not receive the standard of care they should have from CAMHS. The HSE issued...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I thank the Deputy for his question and for the way he put it because it is a very difficult situation. We are seeing increasing numbers of presentations of young people, people with dual addictions, such as drugs and alcohol, they might have a dual diagnosis, or they might be psychotic. Over the past five years we have been trying to grow community supports and we have been successful. ...

Select Committee on Health: Estimates for Public Services 2025
Vote 38 - Department of Health (Revised) (25 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I have to step out to go to the Dáil. My apologies.

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (25 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: The Mental Health Commission's (MHC) 2024 Annual Report, which will be published this Friday, June 27, 2025, notes that the frequency and duration of the admission of children to adult approved centres continued to decrease last year. Information on registered centres, bed numbers and child admissions to adult inpatient mental health units (approved centres) is available on the website of...

Broadcasting (All Ireland Service) (Amendment) Bill 2025: First Stage (24 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: No.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: As the Ceann Comhairle will be aware, since she was at the meeting last Thursday, the majority of issues on the Order of Business for this week were agreed. There was rolling dissent, which rolls over every week, but the majority were agreed. On the defective blocks, as Deputy Mac Lochlainn knows, legislation was agreed at Cabinet only two weeks ago. I have explained that to the Deputy....

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: We will certainly look at that.

An tOrd Gnó - Order of Business (24 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: I move: Tuesday's business shall be:- Motion to Instruct the Committee on the Social Welfare (Bereaved Partner’s Pension) Bill 2025 (without debate and any division claimed to be taken immediately) - Statements on Nursing Homes and Care for Older Persons (resumed) (not to exceed 1 hour and 32 minutes)Tuesday's private members' business shall be Motion re Presidential Voting Rights,...

Written Answers — Department of An Taoiseach: Central Statistics Office (24 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: The Survey on Income and Living Conditions (SILC) is the official source of household income, poverty and deprivation statistics for Ireland. conducted annually by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) as part of a European-wide data collection governed by Regulation (EU) No. 2019/1700, also known as the Integrated European Social Statistics (IESS) framework. This regulation standardises social...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Departmental Budgets (24 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: ADHD has long been recognised as one of the most common psychiatric disorders in children and it is now known to persist into adulthood. Core symptoms include inattention, hyperactivity and impulsivity. This National Clinical Programme is based on multi-disciplinary community teams to diagnose and treat ADHD in adults. As Minister, I am proud to have launched the Model of Care for Adult...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (24 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: It is a key priority of government to develop and delivery recovery-focused, trauma-informed mental health services and supports for the whole population, and with a focus on the needs of the individual and those of priority groups, including people who are homeless. Ireland's national mental health policy, Sharing the Vision: A mental health policy for everyone (2020-2030), details...

Written Answers — Department of Health: Mental Health Services (24 Jun 2025)

Mary Butler: As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.