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	A new youth mental health task force is to be signed off on at the Cabinet breaks for the summer today.</p>
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	Cabinet is also expected to rubber-stamp plans for a separate taskforce to ensure people with disabilities are given a say in how money is spent on services they use.</p>
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	The taskforce on youth mental health will include high-profile celebrity advocates and representatives of social media and broadcast media and will be chaired by Minister of State for Mental Health and Older People Helen McEntee.</p>
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	She said: &ldquo;It will be very much tasked with being an action group, so it&rsquo;s not going to put together a report that is going to sit on a shelf &mdash; it will put together actual physical actions that can be implemented within communities.</p>
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	&ldquo;It will be made up of a variety from the Department of Children, Department of Education, Department of Health, you will also have a separate non-political element to it, you will have people who are leading in the particular fields.&rdquo;</p>
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	Disabilities Minister Finian McGrath will also bring forward plans which were first outlined in the programme for government.</p>
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	Mr McGrath wants to introduce a &ldquo;personalised budget&rdquo; system which will give people with disabilities control over how money is spent to best suit their needs.</p>
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	The move will be overseen by a new task force led by current KARE disability services chief executive Christy Lynch who has repeatedly campaigned for the de-institutionalisation of people with disabilities and may result in an official state agency being set up to address the issue within five years.</p>
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	Separately, Government ministers will also be told today that they cannot ban any TD convicted of corruption from running again for a D&aacute;il seat as such a block would be unconstitutional.</p>
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	Due to advice from attorney general M&aacute;ire Whelan, Justice Minister Frances Fitzgerald will advise Cabinet to abandon a previous initiative to ban any corrupt TDs for up to a decade.</p>
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	(Published by the Irish Examiner on the 27th July 2016)</p>
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	<a href="http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/taskforce-for-youth-mental-health-to-get-green-light-412534.html">http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/taskforce-for-youth-mental-health-to-get-green-light-412534.html</a></p>
