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- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: I welcome this opportunity for statements on mental health to mark mental health week. This session is overlapping in a health committee meeting where we are dealing with legislation so I am afraid I will have to leave after I speak and I will not be able to stay for the Minister of State's wrap-up.
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Mary Butler: I understand.
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Róisín Shortall: For too long, mental health difficulties were seen as a personal failure and something to hide or be ashamed of. I think we are all familiar with those days, which I hope are becoming more distant. While that damaging misconception is changing, which is a welcome development, underlying stigma persists, particularly self-stigma. Last December, St. Patrick's annual attitudes survey found...
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: I call on Deputy Ellis.
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Dessie Ellis: Tá mé síos le haghaidh ceithre nóiméad go leith níos déanaí.
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: Más mian leis an Teachta, is féidir leis labhairt anois.
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Dessie Ellis: Is féidir gan amhras.
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: He will not get the two slots.
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Dessie Ellis: Tá ceann amháin maith go leor. Today is World Mental Health Day. It is a day for raising awareness of mental health issues. It is also a day when we talk about mental health in a way that breaks down the stigma around mental health. It is a day that shows those struggling with mental health issues around the world that people really care about them, empathise with what they are...
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Catherine Connolly: The Deputy gained both ways. He got in earlier and got a longer slot, given the topic in question.
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Niamh Smyth: Today is, of course, World Mental Health Day. I thank the Minister of State for the work she has done in her role since her appointment as Minister of State with responsibility for this very important issue. I know she feels it with her heart, in her head and with all of the work she does in respect of policy, legislation and funding. I thank her for making sure that Cavan and Monaghan got...
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Mary Butler: I will meet them.
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Mark Ward: I thank the Minister of State. I really appreciate that. As she knows, this is a vital, life-saving organisation. I often criticise Government policies so I want to spend a bit of time talking about some of the things Sinn Féin would do if it had a chance to be in government. We have produced a mental health action plan comprising several policy documents over the past while. The...
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Darren O'Rourke: I will pick up on the point regarding SOSAD. It provides such an important service in my county. It is very difficult to measure these things but the organisation is living up to its name and saving sons and daughters. It delivers tens of thousands of hours of counselling and support to thousands of people. In my own county, it delivered 4,500 counselling sessions in the past year, while...
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Martin Kenny: World Mental Health Day brings into sharp focus the problems we deal with all the time throughout the country regarding mental health issues. Practically every family, to some extent or other, is affected. As public representatives, we deal with this on an ongoing basis. When I was a councillor, we used to say we were counsellors as well as councillors. When people came into our offices...
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Mary Butler: That is No. 14 of 16. I am getting there.
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Martin Kenny: I accept that. The big issue we have in many areas is that people feel left behind because they do have access to the teams they need and that the CAMHS or other teams simply do not have the resources to provide the necessary services. At the end of the day, all of this is down to funding and resourcing. Many of the problems we come across with CAMHS and adult mental health services arise...
- World Mental Health Day: Statements (10 Oct 2024)
Mark Ward: I do not know how many more engagements we will have from one side of the House to the other. On this World Mental Health Day I wish the Minister of State, Deputy Butler, and her staff all the very best. I know we have had political differences over the years but I wish you all the best on World Mental Health Day. I want to thank everybody working in mental health services on World...
- South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan for Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Matt Shanahan: I ask the Minister of State to put on the record the size of the turbines he referenced in Denmark, which are closer to shore than he suggested.
- South Coast Designated Maritime Area Plan for Offshore Renewable Energy: Motion (10 Oct 2024)
Question put and agreed to.