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Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Eating Disorders (3 Oct 2024)

Mary Butler: Since the model of care was launched in 2018, we have learned that 90% of those with an eating disorder can be treated very well in the community. We saw a huge spike in the number of referrals for eating disorders during Covid, especially in girls aged 15 or 16 with anorexia. As I said, year on year I have continued to prioritise the roll-out of these teams, which are specialist teams....

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Eating Disorders (3 Oct 2024)

Violet-Anne Wynne: I seek clarification. We will have a CAMHS team but I am conscious of the need for a pathway for adults to get services. Will that remain a gap to be prioritised next year?. At least 200,000 people in Ireland suffer from an eating disorder and there is an issue with the availability of inpatient beds. While the Minister of State alluded to community care, which may be fantastic for many...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Eating Disorders (3 Oct 2024)

Mark Ward: As Deputy Wynne noted, there are currently only three specialist inpatient beds for adult eating disorders in the State. As the Minister of State will know, eating disorders are one of the most fatal mental health problems people can have. Patients are being admitted into non-specialist wards, having their body mass index increased without specialist help and being released back into the...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Eating Disorders (3 Oct 2024)

Bernard Durkan: To what extent will the Kildare-west Wicklow section to which the Minister of State referred see a noticeable improvement such that patients and potential patients can put their minds at ease, with specific reference to access and follow-up?

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Eating Disorders (3 Oct 2024)

Mary Butler: Approximately 90% of people with eating disorders are treated in the community. The best clinical advice that was available to me when I took up this role suggested that we should enhance the clinical supports in the communities because that would meet the needs of that 90%. We are undertaking a review of the model of care because when it was devised in 2018 with data from 2016 and 2017, it...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (3 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: It is clear that urgent remediation is required. It is welcome that the HSE intends to conduct the assessments and will be back within a couple of weeks. There is important additional good news for the area. The planned primary care centre in nearby Tubbercurry is due to commence building early next year, which is welcome. The existing primary and mental health care centre in Ballymote is...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (3 Oct 2024)

Marian Harkin: I thank the Minister. The people in Tubbercurry and Ballymote will be very pleased with that. What is at issue here is the Gurteen health centre. They told me the HSE maintenance manager has been as helpful as he can. He has done everything he can but the problem is a severe one and it is just papering over the cracks. I know the Minister is really interested in women's health. Dr....

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: Primary Care Centres (3 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. I acknowledge the work of Dr. Fitzsimons on women's health. I was delighted earlier this week to be able to expand that. This will be our fifth budget in a row where we really do prioritise women's healthcare. There have been a few important additions which Dr. Fitzsimons and all the other GPs will be aware of and will be part of. One is the expansion of IVF...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions (3 Oct 2024)

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (3 Oct 2024)

Dental Services

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (3 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: 5. To ask the Minister for Health when additional resources will be provided for dental services in Cavan and Monaghan, to reduce waiting lists and ensure that dental services are provided in a timely manner, particularly for children; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [39390/24]

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (3 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: Unfortunately, we come across daily unacceptable delays in children getting dental treatment. Children should be screened in second, fourth and sixth classes. In Cavan at present, the children who are in the programme for sixth class have gone to second level before they actually see a dentist. It is a shortage of personnel. The local personnel are working extremely hard but they do not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (3 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy and acknowledge his ongoing advocacy in terms of dental services, particularly the children's services and the school-based programme. There have been challenges and children have been waiting too long. A good deal of the delay came about through Covid and the HSE is still in the process of catch-up. The Government invests over €200 million into oral healthcare...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (3 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I thank the Minister and acknowledge the substantial increase in resources he has got for his Department for the forthcoming year. I congratulate him on his work in the Department together with his Ministers of State. One area we need to address, which I acknowledge I did not specify in my question, is patients with disabilities and complex and additional needs. I am thinking particularly...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (3 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: I thank the Deputy. Rest assured there have never been as many staff. We are hearing claims about suppression of posts. The reality is that there are nearly 30,000 more healthcare workers in the HSE now than there were when this Government came in. This week through the budget we have funded another 3,500 new posts. At the end of this year there are about 2,500 funded posts vacant. Not...

Ceisteanna Eile - Other Questions: Dental Services (3 Oct 2024)

Brendan Smith: I appreciate that. I know of the Minister's concern for children with complex and additional needs. I will read a communication that I saw from a parent of a child who got dental treatment. The parent wrote: I feel saddened that those with special needs and who may be non-verbal can often suffer in silence, distress and anxiety due to pain, sadly [my son] suffered for a while before we...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Children's Hospital (3 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: There is an obvious role for the contractor to resource the contract and I have called on the main contractor to do exactly that. I am interested in the hospital being built as quickly as possible for children. My main focus is on ensuring that we have a world-class, fit-for-purpose children’s hospital that is open and treating patients. The Minister used the example of a wall being...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Children's Hospital (3 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: The Deputy raised a few points. Let me be clear, in that I wanted the State to take ownership of the hospital around now. The contractor told us it would be in October or November, but it has missed its deadline. It has under-resourced the project repeatedly and failed to meet its deadline. I agree with the Deputy about how the hospital development board, which is acting on our behalf,...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Children's Hospital (3 Oct 2024)

David Cullinane: That is no good to the people of the State who are still funding the hospital or to the children who need it. Does the Minister accept that the levers for holding the contractor to account do not exist? All the levers he has mentioned have been used before and clearly do not work. Does he accept that that has to do with flaws in the contract? Despite all of the tough talk and Ministers...

Ceisteanna ar Sonraíodh Uain Dóibh - Priority Questions: National Children's Hospital (3 Oct 2024)

Stephen Donnelly: At this point, it would be a futile exercise to second-guess the contract. The contract is what the board has and we must manage the project within it. The board is using the contract to the fullest extent possible. I acknowledge the Deputy’s role in this. He must, and should, put pressure on us. I would were I in his chair, and did. There is value to us speaking with one...