Jillian van Turnhout (Independent) | Oireachtas source

It is disappointing that certain questions about children who have gone missing from State care, the Roscommon child care cases and funding for front-line youth services will not be asked today.

I wish to ask about alcohol-related harm. I welcome the Minister's comprehensive answers. It shows her seriousness about these issues. Another Oireachtas committee produced a report on alcohol that should have been produced by this committee. Alcohol-related harm is a health issue. It is also an issue affecting children, as the Minister has shown. It directly and indirectly affects them. Deputy Ó Caoláin raised the issue of domestic violence. We know there is a relationship between the two issues in certain cases. We must return to the issue of alcohol-related harm.