Ms Orla Keegan:

I will start. Training is fundamental to bereavement care. For a start, many of our ways of thinking about bereavement have changed rather radically over the past 20 years or so, and those already in practice may not be up to date. There is a top-up of bereavement training required. The variety and regulation of counselling and psychotherapy is one issue and then within that issue, there is how the individual counsellor demonstrates that he or she has a bereavement competency, and that is the piece on which we can work from a bereavement perspective.