Jan O'Sullivan (Limerick City, Labour) | Oireachtas source

I want to clarify the role of the committee. Senator Freeman said we will come back to this in the autumn and I support that. We will set time aside. The Joint Committee on Children and Youth Affairs cannot implement much of what we have heard. It is the responsibility of the health committee or the Department of Health.

Deputy Funchion raised the issue of play therapy and the well-being course is coming into the school system. We should look at a cross-departmental response to all of this because, as the children's committee, we do not have the power to deal with much of this. We need to engage with the education and health committees to identify what specifically can and must be done to address the issues that have been raised. I thank the witnesses for their presentation.