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Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

Paul Murphy: I welcome the fact that we are having this debate. One of the positive developments in society as a whole in recent years has been an increase in discussion and openness about people's mental health difficulties. We are a long way from the stigma relating to mental health being fully removed but important progress has been made. The reality is that having mental health difficulties is...

Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

Joanna Tuffy: There are other speakers; Deputy Fleming was listed.

Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: It is not that. I was not going to make much of a contribution anyway because what I find most offensive is that everyone who came into the House to speak got up and left afterwards. If they are so interested in mental health, the least they could do is sit down and listen to the debate.

Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

Catherine Murphy: I do not suppose there is a community that is not affected by suicide. In my area there were several clusters of young people who lost their lives through suicide. One parent came to me, and probably to every other public representative in the area, because she was looking for it not to happen to anyone else, if that was possible. She was still very raw. She had gone through the strategy...

Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

Joe O'Reilly: I am proud to say that I have a history of volunteerism in this area. I was the inaugural chairperson of Bailieborough Mental Health Association for a number of years in the mid-1990s. That association went from strength to strength and became involved in a wonderful amount of wide-ranging activities. I worked with the development officer of Mental Health Ireland in respect of the...

Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

James Bannon: ...two local students, Thomas Ganley from Longford and Niamh Tubridy from County Westmeath. Their goal is to promote positive mental health through the "Let's Go Mental" campaign. Thomas and Niamh are passionate about this project. The campaign is a series of 31 regional events for teenagers to promote positive mental health. One of these regional events took place in Longford town and...

Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

Dessie Ellis: Mental health in Ireland is, thankfully, being increasingly discussed in an open and transparent way. For too many years there has been a stigma attached to mental health, which portrayed mental illness as a sign of personal weakness and a taboo subject within society in general. Mental health is not just the absence of mental illness but is in fact a level of mental well-being which equips...

Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

Barry Cowen: ...it has been wiped out by increases in car insurance and medical health insurance. In doing that the Government further put off the potential to provide the type of funding that is required in this area. It is also against the background of there being a 6% growth rate in the economy this year. While that and the progress in regard to inward investment are to be welcomed, and while...

Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

Maureen O'Sullivan: ...State, Deputy Kathleen Lynch, in that regard as well as the role of the families, individuals and various organisations. I also acknowledge the role of the Oireachtas group on mental health. We are probably the only group who can agree a pre-budget submission. We know the old way was to medicate, institutionalise and use some horrific procedures. I welcome what the Minister of State...

Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

Stephen Donnelly: I accept the Minister of State's bona fides in terms of tackling youth mental health but reading her speech today it would be unclear to anyone that we are facing a crisis in mental health services. I spoke recently at a conference held by the Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health. I spoke to youth mental health workers and psychiatrists beforehand. One of them told me there...

Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

Dan Neville: .... My mother was a psychiatric nurse in the 1940s. The institution she worked in was known in her time as the mental hospital but 20 years before that it was known as the lunatic asylum. We are coming from that low base which goes back decades and centuries. Even in recent decades we have neglected the opportunity to improve the area. Things have moved on and when A Vision for...

Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

Finian McGrath: ..., including children's rights, human rights, education and mental health services. I also warmly and strongly support the recommendations made in the coalition's report from 2013, Someone to Care, which identifies the experiences and mental health needs of children and young people in the care and youth justice systems. I strongly support implementation of the national guidelines on...

Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin: ...many as 1,000 citizens die across the island each year by suicide. The human cost for families and communities is devastating. The reality is that all sections and generations of our society are affected, from the very young to the very old, in rural and urban areas alike. Mental health is traditionally an area in which Ireland has performed badly. While society has started to deal...

Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

Colm Keaveney: ...behind high walls, with other groups of stigmatised persons such as single mothers and their children, our society has now firmly and rightly rejected that approach in the context of the word "care". We have, in the past 20 years, faced up to much of the darkness of our past, which included industrial schools, laundries and mother and baby homes. When it came to some of those past...

Developments in Mental Health Services: Statements (19 Nov 2015)

Kathleen Lynch: ..., for many reasons and in many respects, is a complex and emotive issue. It is encouraging that, in my time as Minister of State, I have generally found a consensus in both Houses to improve the area of mental health, including implementation of the widely supported policy, A Vision for Change. This Government has consistently prioritised investment in mental health and the HSE has...