1127. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Health the positions unfilled in CAMHS ID teams, by county, team and by length of time, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47638/25]
Topics / Mental Health Services
A subject heading for parliamentary questionsMental Health Services
1,556 questions from 122 TDs, between 22 January 2025 and 22 October 2026.
1,556
questions
1,548 written, 8 oral
122
TDs have asked
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parties and groups
Independents counted together
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departments asked
Questions per month
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| January 2025 | 21 |
| February 2025 | 72 |
| March 2025 | 106 |
| April 2025 | 64 |
| May 2025 | 106 |
| June 2025 | 80 |
| July 2025 | 140 |
| August 2025 | 0 |
| September 2025 | 51 |
| October 2025 | 99 |
| November 2025 | 55 |
| December 2025 | 48 |
| January 2026 | 104 |
| February 2026 | 87 |
| March 2026 | 90 |
| April 2026 | 121 |
| May 2026 | 89 |
| June 2026 | 84 |
| July 2026 | 66 |
| August 2026 | 0 |
| September 2026 | 27 |
| October 2026 | 46 |
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The party each TD belonged to on the day, in alphabetical order. Parties differ a lot in size, and members of the Government answer questions rather than ask them, so this shows who raised it, not how much a party cares about it.
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The questions
1128. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Health the plan and timeframe in Louth to have a fully populated CAMHS ID multi-disciplinary team; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47639/25]
1130. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Health the plan and timeframe to deliver the ten-bed extension in Drogheda DOP, Crosslanes; her plans to improve the acute mental health bed provision in Louth/Meath; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47641/25]
1134. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Health the proposals being considered for mental health services in county Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47656/25]
1135. Deputy Ruairí Ó Murchú asked the Minister for Health the unfilled mental health service positions in county Louth; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47657/25]
1141. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the steps she will take to address the situation whereby persons in a mental health crisis in the Tuam area of County Galway have a current wait time for a crisis appointment of six-weeks; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47782/25]
1142. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the posts in adult mental health services in Tuam, County Galway; the services offered by the team; if any posts remain vacant; the current wait times; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47783/25]
1143. Deputy Seán Canney asked the Minister for Health the steps she will take to ensure that mental health professionals in community mental health teams are equipped to deal with adults with autism; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47784/25]
1144. Deputy Natasha Newsome Drennan asked the Minister for Health the number of adult psychiatrists for ADHD in the south-east HSE region; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [47785/25]
1210. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of children and adolescents on waiting-lists in primary care services for occupational therapy, physiotherapy, psychology, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy in excess of one year, two years, three years and so on, until the longest duration in years, by health region, in tabular form. [48155/25]
1211. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the grade and service location of primary care and secondary mental health posts, within each health region, in occupational therapy, social work, psychology, physiotherapy and speech and language therapy which were vacated in 2023 and 2024 that have yet been submitted for replacement and which have not yet received stage 3 approval, in tabular form. [48156/25]
1296. Deputy David Cullinane asked the Minister for Health if the expert group on the next suicide reduction strategy will consider the matter of mental health emergency departments or emergency rooms; if the group will consider wider sets of proposals from the public and bereaved families known as Adam's Protocols; if not, the reason; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [48687/25]
549. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance the estimated annual VAT revenue collected from counselling and psychotherapy services. [46527/25]
550. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Finance if his Department has carried out an assessment of the fiscal impact of designating counselling and psychotherapy services as VAT exempt in line with other health services. [46528/25]
564. Deputy Louis O'Hara asked the Minister for Finance if he plans to designate psychotherapy and counselling services as VAT exempt services; if his Department has undertaken any analysis on the cost of designating these services as VAT exempt services; if so, the amount such a designation would cost; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [46626/25]
1889. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children awaiting psychological treatment in County Kerry, in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44894/25]
1890. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the number of children awaiting psychological treatment in each county in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 and to date in 2025, in tabular form; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44896/25]
1891. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality the plans being put in place to address the large waiting lists for children awaiting psychological treatment in County Kerry; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [44898/25]
1951. Deputy Pearse Doherty asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality when a child (details supplied) will receive appointments with CAMHS, CDNT and an emergency child psychologist in County Donegal; if emergency support will be provided; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45716/25]
2007. Deputy Ruth Coppinger asked the Minister for Children, Disability and Equality if her attention has been drawn to concerns raised by organisations regarding a person (details supplied) due to lack of access to social work and OT within their mental health services; and the steps her Department will take to support this person. [46986/25]
2255. Deputy Michael Cahill asked the Minister for Health the actions she will take to ensure continued access to child adolescent counsellor hours for a person (details supplied); and if she will make a statement on the matter. [45348/25]
2307. Deputy Darren O'Rourke asked the Minister for Health the full year cost to fully staff three extra perinatal mental health teams. [45530/25]
2312. Deputy Liam Quaide asked the Minister for Health the number of residents accommodated by the HSE in a property acquired for residential mental health service use in a location (details supplied) and the opening date of that service. [45573/25]
2319. Deputy Paula Butterly asked the Minister for Health the operational or administrative measures within the Health Service Executive run psychiatric units have been or will be implemented to fulfil the principle of ‘support there and then’ under Maxi’s Law specifically regarding referral agreements with private facilities when public units such as Crosslanes Drogheda Co Louth are at capacity. [45588/25]
2350. Deputy Sorca Clarke asked the Minister for Health the number of public referrals made to a mental health service (details supplied) in 2024; and the number of referrals refused, in tabular form. [45659/25]