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Mental Health: Statements (Resumed) (21 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: In 2019, €55 million was allocated to mental health services, bringing spending on those services to in excess of €1 billion. However, a reply to a parliamentary question I tabled on 22 October stated that €33 million had been drawn down, with €10 million to be sanctioned and €12 million not to be spent in 2019. I am seeking clarification as to why that...

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Disability Allowance Appeals (21 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: 249. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection if she will address a matter regarding the case of a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48407/19]

Written Answers — Department of Children and Youth Affairs: Illness Benefit Payments (21 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: 251. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of illness benefit payments for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48413/19]

Written Answers — Department of Housing, Planning, and Local Government: Planning Issues (21 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: 271. To ask the Minister for Housing, Planning, and Local Government the details of the local government Part XI planning and public consultation process including the decision making responsibilities and the right of appeal; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [48456/19]

Written Answers — Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection: Illness Benefit Applications (20 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: 320. To ask the Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection the status of an application by a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47992/19]

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: I thank the delegation for coming in. I am sorry for being late but I picked it up as Dr. Muldoon was talking about the pathfinder project. That is something I am trying to push through in the Dáil. It is with the Department of Public Expenditure and Reform and that is where we need to move it on from. I do not know if any correspondence has come back or if Dr. Muldoon knows anything...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: -----because this is starting to move and shift. It is difficult for us to do this because the technology is moving so fast, and because the technology is driving the culture, everything is moving extremely fast and it is only in retrospect that we start to pick this up. I would be interested in the witnesses' thoughts on that or if any studies have been done. On the mental health side,...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: What are the ideas around helping the teachers do that? Straight away we are asking teachers who do not have the skills to be reskilled and retrained. I am not saying I have the skills or that anybody else does because this is moving so fast.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: My point is there is nothing wrong. I am trying to get to the nuance of this and it probably needs a lot more debate. It is not the technology. It is how it is being used and how we are communicating. We can still market ourselves as technological leaders but it is how we use and interpret that as a culture.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: I did not say we should ban mobile phones. I did not say that.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: I am talking about the cultural communication and what is accepted in our society as rational communication style and content as opposed to the actual device. I am talking about the mannerisms and how we interact.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: We must be careful. There is a certain cohort. It is not everybody.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: It is not across the board.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: This is probably too much of a conceptual debate but my point is on the effect it is having on children looking at it and being exposed to it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: This is why I am trying to get the input of the witnesses to educate me so I can learn more about it.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: Yes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: I have stated previously that social media have some very positive aspects, such as community groups, community development and how children interact with each other through youth clubs, etc. There are even online advisory fora where they can discuss issues. We need to have a balanced debate. Senator Freeman spoke about political motivation in the context of mental health and asked where...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: With the Chairman's indulgence, there are two separate strands. There is online bullying and harassment. We see it and we call it what it is. There are also the grey areas, which we find it very difficult to define because everything is boxed into an algorithm. Somebody may be writing something with the best intentions but it can be interpreted in a different way because it is devoid of...

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: I understand that. I am not talking about the extremes.

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Children and Youth Affairs: UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: Discussion (20 Nov 2019)

Tom Neville: I am talking about the greyer areas and how something can be interpreted. This is not to take away from the extremes. There are two separate strands in analysing it.