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A NEW REPORT into the HSE’s performance has shows young people still struggling to access mental health services.
The new report – looking at the first two months of the year – shows 182 teenagers and children in January and 177 in February who had to wait 12 months or more for an appointment.
Although the HSE’s aim is to have a system where no child or teenager should have to wait that long – things are a lot better than they were this time last year.
The number of teenagers and children waiting more than 12 months fell from 453 in March 2015 down to 177 in February.
The situation as it is now means that around 8% of the young people looking for appointments have been on a waiting list for over a year.
Mental health across the board
Summing up how the area is performing, the HSE pointed to the number of vacancies in the service and difficulties in recruiting staff as two area that still posed problems.
These shortages, it says, make delivering services at community level much tougher.
For adult mental health services a big target for the HSE is to give people their first appointment, and have them seen within three months of accessing the service.
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The HSE’s target for this is 75%, and although it came close to hitting this in the first two months of the year – hitting 69.1% in January and 70.5% in February (and it is worth noting that these figures factor in people who do not attend their appointments).
Mental health protesters outside the Dáil last month Leah Farrell / RollingNews.ie
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Mental health funding has been under increased scrutiny in recent months, after former minister for health Leo Varadkar said that money earmarked for the service would be diverted elsewhere.
In the new report, spending in the area is shown to be around €2 million over-budget for the year, coming in at €128.8 million.
The bigger picture
While this deviations isn’t exactly massive, the bigger financial picture for the health service shows that there could be rocky times ahead.
For the first two months of the year there was a deficit of €58.4 million, or around 2.8%.
If things continue like this, it could mean an end-of-year deficit of around €350 million.
In previous years the government has been able to mask difficulties in the health service hitting its budgetary targets with a supplementary budget, but that isn’t an option this time around.
The HSE National Service Plan published in December of last year pointed to new EU budgetary rules that prevent this from happening.
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@Says I: Russia inflicted this war on Ukraine. Millions became refugees. Every country in Europe now hosts these refugees. Every country in Europe now has something to do with this war, militarily or otherwise. Russian aggression has affected every country in Europe in so many ways. Russia needs to withdraw its orc forces and go home. Putin is a lunatic.
Also, congratulations on being selected to speak on behalf of “the Irish people”. Your family must be thrilled.
@Says I: We need to change the rules around the appointment of EU Commissioner’s they should be directly elected by the people at the ballot box. This is a Republic
@K O: No, sorry. I’m always happy to point out the despotic lunacy of Putin, the effects of his invasion of Ukraine, and then laugh at the eagers fluffers who hawk tuah all over the paranoid mafia don.
@honey badger: You refuse to condemn Israeli war crimes while you bang on incessantly about Russia. Israel has killed more children in a few months than all global conflicts (including Ukraine) combined over the last three years. Your Hypocrisy is astonishing
@honey badger: agree. However, with all the finger pointing by the US and NATO, why was it Sweden dropped the Nord Stream terrorism case? Did they find out who did it but couldn’t hack it?
@Darth O’Leary: Your selective memory is betraying you again, Darthy! I’ve answered all your tedious questions and whataboutery. I couldn’t care less that you’re not happy with my replies! I told you previously that following me around insisting on new answers isn’t going to work. Please mute me and save your sanity! Your performative hysterics are entertaining, though!
Attacking me for criticising Russia is very odd, but not surprising. You keep on fluffing Russia, and I’ll keep on laughing at your terrible tantrums! :)
@Darth O’Leary: Gazans are listed as children until their nineteenth birthday (it helps with the handouts from UN). So, an eighteen year old with a grenade launcher is listed as a child when shot.
@Gerry Campbell: Another snide remarks about Nina Carberry. No doubt you were willing to vote for Gildernew an abstentionist MP, who took the queen’s shilling and didn’t turn up for work. Or you were willing to vote in as President a labourer who worked in an abattoir from age 15 – the correct description of his trade is considered toxic. Or the unfortunate electorate of Louth by a barman from the Duke of York – talking about the Coolies, wherever they are. Nina is from the South and a good person to represent us.
@Vincent Alexander: Celebrity Ye Right she didn’t answer any questions kept clear of the media No expierence in Politics Just put someone forward that is known & away we go totally wrong Maria walsh the same check what she done in 5 years there & u will have your answer
MM, our beloved FF leader , will nominate his gov lackey, and find what rewards they will receive for betraying the Irish people and virtually bankrupting our country filling it with illegal scammers. He makes you want to puke.
These people create their own self importance, They manufacture issues to justify a state fear and compliance while giving the impression of working on your behalf. In my opinion it’s a failed model that no longer works for the ordinary man and woman’s best interests.
@087 bed:
Yet support for the EU has risen in EVERY member country. (Pew Research)
Even the perennial EU haters , Orban, Le Pen , Meloni, Wilders etcetera have all dropped leaving the EU from their manifestos.
The one great achievement of Brexit was a curing of the vast majority of the population of the EU of any notions that we would be better outside.
@P. J.: Another Bot account to push the EU failed narrative, The UK is thriving in spite of the efforts to make things difficult by the EU, The only country feeling any pain is Ireland.
Its only a few weeks since ffg where let off the hook by the voting public and over the last week evidence of there cronyism came out . Ffg appointed judge frees a man who beat a woman up on the streets and boasted about it on social media. Then we had a report that the nearly 3 billion euro children’s hospital diagnosed rooms aren’t wheelchair accessible, add in a 20% I increase in bus and rail prices , and it’s clear what ffg care about ,Themselves
The EU difference in treatment of Russia compared with Israel is sickening. It clearly shows the EU Commission is in lockstep with the senile delinquent, Butcher Biden.
@Denis Harkin: I would certainly hope for a different approach to Russia, who unprovoked invaded their neighbours and I am not just talking of Ukraine, and Israel a country defending itself from hostile neighbours that want them wiped iut.
Also delighted that the EU is working with the elderly president to protect the only democracy in the Middle East.
The EU, and by extension, Ireland are sanctioning states that couldn’t hold a match to Israel when it comes to breaking international law and committing war crimes yet WE ARE NOT sanctioning Israel! This state of affairs calls into disrepute the entire sanctioning rationale of the EU. If we are seriously interested in fairness, justice and the rule of law then Ireland needs to take the ability to sanction foreign states, or not, back under our own purview. The EU has shown itself to be incapable of preforming this function and member states(Germany) are actually arming the Israelis. As a result of this we are in a union with countries complicit in war crimes and if we don’t change this state and affairs then we are complicit too.
@Darth O’Leary: I wonder will Micky Martin be the man to stand up for the rule of international law on behalf of The Irish Republic or will he blindly go along with this travesty?
@John D Doe: waiting for the next crash, this time caused by fg. What will you say then? All the signs are there, hospitals, housing, gardai, navy, army all in a mess.
Mute another one? what's going on is the semi state sec
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On de telly saying Aerlingus should get to the table and sort things out?!?!…… Maybe sort out the defence forces, conditions are a joke. But you want to muzzle them instead
Foley tipped for Minister for Finance?? Scraped into the last seat in Kerry , made Minister for Education on her first day in the Dail, and now mooted for Minister of Finance………Something very, very, very fishy going on there!!!
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