Written answers

Tuesday, 31 January 2023

Department of Health

Mental Health Services

Photo of Mark WardMark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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642. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to a matter involving the Mental Health Commission interim report into CAMHS (details supplied); if similar risks have not been escalated appropriately across the health service; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4136/23]

Photo of Mary ButlerMary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Photo of Mark WardMark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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643. To ask the Minister for Health if his attention has been drawn to reports that no risk for CAMHS was on the national risk register, following the publishing of the Maskey Report; the last time his office inspected the national risk register; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4137/23]

Photo of Mary ButlerMary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Photo of Mark WardMark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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644. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS consultant psychiatrists per CHO from 2017 to 2022, and to date in 2023; the number of vacant positions per CHO for the same period; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4138/23]

Photo of Mary ButlerMary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Photo of Mark WardMark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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645. To ask the Minister for Health the budget allocated to CAMHS as a percentage of the health budget and the overall budget from 2017 to 2022, and to date in 2023; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4139/23]

Photo of Mary ButlerMary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Photo of Mark WardMark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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646. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS per CHO that offer family-based therapy, cognitive behavioural therapy and play therapy; if there are plans to provide these services where they are absent; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4140/23]

Photo of Mark WardMark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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647. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS intellectual disability teams in place; the CHOs in which they are in place; the target number of teams; if he will provide an update on their roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4141/23]

Photo of Mark WardMark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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648. To ask the Minister for Health if he will provide an update on the current number of forensic CAMHS teams in place; the target number of forensic CAMHS teams to be in place; the current and target numbers for forensic CAMHS inpatient beds and their expected opening dates; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4142/23]

Photo of Mark WardMark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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649. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CAMHS teams per CHO that offer out-of-hours mental health treatment; the reason that this has not been developed in CHOs despite the commitment to do so in the 2019 national service plan; the current progress of delivering this commitment; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4143/23]

Photo of Mary ButlerMary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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I propose to take Questions Nos. 646 to 649, inclusive, together.

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

Photo of Mark WardMark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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650. To ask the Minister for Health when the HSE survey of children’s health service stakeholders will take place in relation to page 18 of the Mental Health Commission interim report into CAMHS; the CHOs that are currently carrying out joint working and interagency meetings between children’s health services; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4144/23]

Photo of Mary ButlerMary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

Photo of Mark WardMark Ward (Dublin Mid West, Sinn Fein)
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651. To ask the Minister for Health the number of CHOs using telepsychiatry for CAMHS; if he will provide feedback on its use to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [4145/23]

Photo of Mary ButlerMary Butler (Waterford, Fianna Fail)
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As this is a service matter, I have asked the Health Service Executive to respond directly to the Deputy as soon as possible.

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