Mr. Jimmy Goulding:

I have just one comment. While Deputy Catherine Byrne observed that young people are very aware of their sexuality, I do not believe young people are sufficiently educated in that they go out and have unprotected sex while thinking there now is a treatment for HIV. This is the perspective that young people to whom I talk have. A 27 year old who had been diagnosed with HIV approached me last month. He did not know what HIV was and actually told me that while it was a death sentence years ago, he thought it now was a life sentence because he would be obliged to alter his life and all that. Consequently, I believe that young people are not being educated sufficiently about HIV.