# kathleen-lynch - Monday 21 March, 2016
# Shots Fired
# Shots Fired
Kathleen Lynch has given a revealing interview in which she criticises the Health Minister.
# kathleen-lynch - Friday 29 January, 2016
# Foster Care
# Foster Care
Social Care Minister Kathleen Lynch issued a statement today addressing allegations of physical and sexual abuse at a state-backed foster home.
# kathleen-lynch - Wednesday 7 October, 2015
# Trouble Brewing
# Trouble Brewing
The INMO’s announcement comes on foot of an incident at the mental health unit of University Hospital Galway on Friday.
# kathleen-lynch - Friday 31 July, 2015
# Expansion
# Expansion
The announcement has been made by Health Minister Leo Varadkar.
# kathleen-lynch - Wednesday 22 July, 2015
# Elderly
# Elderly
Numerous shortcomings were found by a Hiqa report published yesterday.
# Self Harm
# Self Harm
The state’s mental health watchdog has found training for mental health service providers was inadequate.
# kathleen-lynch - Tuesday 14 July, 2015
# We Shall Not Be Moved
# We Shall Not Be Moved
Concerns have been raised about the possible closure of the Cleary Centre in Donegal Town.
# kathleen-lynch - Monday 29 June, 2015
# Kilkenny
# Kilkenny
The unit at St Patricks, Kilkenny, which houses 28 people, has been de-registered for up to 28 days over a number of concerns.
# kathleen-lynch - Wednesday 24 June, 2015
# Busy Phonelines
# Busy Phonelines
The level of uptake has been described as “phenomenal”.
# Suicide Prevention
# Suicide Prevention
The government wants to reduce suicide and self-harm by 10% over the next five years.
# kathleen-lynch - Wednesday 3 June, 2015
# Dundrum
# Dundrum
Patients will be transferred to a larger, more modern, hospital in Portrane.
# kathleen-lynch - Tuesday 26 May, 2015
# Dáil Bantz
# Dáil Bantz
They just couldn’t help themselves…
# kathleen-lynch - Friday 22 May, 2015
# Long Time Coming
# Long Time Coming
The women will be eligible for a range of health services from the start of July.
# kathleen-lynch - Wednesday 22 April, 2015
# Pro-Choice
# Pro-Choice
Ruth Coppinger wants the State to stop confiscating the tablets.
# kathleen-lynch - Thursday 2 April, 2015
# Overcrowding
# Overcrowding
Hospital waiting lists and overcrowding are among the biggest problems facing the health service.
# kathleen-lynch - Tuesday 10 March, 2015
# Donal Walsh
# Donal Walsh
Kathleen Lynch has been paid undisclosed damages.
# kathleen-lynch - Friday 13 February, 2015
# Health
# Health
Minister Kathleen Lynch said an extra €30 million is needed.
# kathleen-lynch - Thursday 12 February, 2015
# Medical Cards
# Medical Cards
“It’s not that the system isn’t sympathetic, it is – who wouldn’t be?”
# kathleen-lynch - Tuesday 16 December, 2014
# State Of The Nation
# State Of The Nation
Here’s everything you need to know about what’s happening in Irish politics right now…
# kathleen-lynch - Saturday 29 November, 2014
# Funding
# Funding
The Mental Health Minister said occasionally wards would be full when beds were free.
# kathleen-lynch - Thursday 27 November, 2014
# HSE Service Plan
# HSE Service Plan
The Health Minister also ruled out a General Election in 2015.
# kathleen-lynch - Wednesday 26 November, 2014
# kathleen-lynch - Wednesday 15 October, 2014
# Budget 2015
# Budget 2015
€35 million is being ring-fenced for the area as part of Budget 2015, but organisations are concerned that’s still €15 million short of what should be spent.
# kathleen-lynch - Sunday 5 October, 2014
# Street Dealing
# Street Dealing
There are concerns over the growing quantity of these drugs being illegally sold.
# kathleen-lynch - Wednesday 1 October, 2014
# Seanad
# Seanad
McNulty withdrew from the Seanad by-election yesterday.
# kathleen-lynch - Tuesday 23 September, 2014
# National Facility
# National Facility
Planning permission for the project could be decided upon in the first half of next year.
# kathleen-lynch - Sunday 14 September, 2014
# Medication
# Medication
Groups representing carers, elderly people and those on low incomes have called for a reduction but that’s not likely to happen in the next Budget.
# kathleen-lynch - Wednesday 10 September, 2014
# The Old Guard
# The Old Guard
Dublin City Council and Age Friendly Ireland have teamed up to try and improve the lives of Dublin’s elderly.
# kathleen-lynch - Thursday 17 July, 2014
# Fair Deal Scheme
# Fair Deal Scheme
The waiting time for funding increased from six to 12 weeks, while the number of people on the list rose by 500.
# kathleen-lynch - Wednesday 16 July, 2014
# Opinion
# Opinion
The new Gaeltacht minister isn’t fluent in Irish and the de-prioritisation of older people’s issues has been rubber-stamped; whole sections of society are being disenfranchised.
# kathleen-lynch - Tuesday 15 July, 2014
# Social Care
# Social Care
It comes after concerns over a change in her title today.
# kathleen-lynch - Monday 30 June, 2014
# Refuges
# Refuges
Speaking in the Dáil last week, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald said that certain laws need to be updated before Ireland can ratify the EU Convention on domestic violence.
# kathleen-lynch - Wednesday 25 June, 2014
# PNA
# PNA
The Psychiatric Nurses Association say that the government’s roadmap for improvements in the sector needs to be overhauled.
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
The tool offers immediate access to a lower-intensity intervention and is implemented through healthcare professionals.
# kathleen-lynch - Sunday 22 June, 2014
# No Confidence
# No Confidence
Nine psychiatrists have withdrawn confidence in the clinical management of the mental health service in the Carlow-Kilkenny-South Tipperary.
# kathleen-lynch - Monday 26 May, 2014
# Mad As Hell
# Mad As Hell
John Whelan has said the party’s leadership has become out-of-touch with voters and arrogant.
# kathleen-lynch - Friday 23 May, 2014
# Mental Health
# Mental Health
The HSA has been called in to examine the unit at UCHG after the death of a patient last week.
# kathleen-lynch - Thursday 22 May, 2014
# Review
# Review
Kathleen Lynch was responding to allegations from Fianna Fáil TD Colm Keaveney, who yesterday expressed alarm at the “rapid deterioration” of services at University Hospital Galway.
# kathleen-lynch - Monday 12 May, 2014
# Unwilling
# Unwilling
In 2011, 25 out of 332 programmes of ECT were given to patients who were either unwilling or unable to give consent to the treatment.
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