Jim Daly (Cork South West, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

Yes, of course. That is social media. I agree with the Deputy that the psychotherapists are under-used. That is very much the narrative I have been using, which is that we need to talk about the primary care level I have just mentioned.

The Deputy asked me about the national educational psychological service, NEPS. The objective is that Pathfinder will allow us realise, with education, the utilisation of these psychotherapists and make sure they are all actively engaged in the system and that it is done through primary care levels.

The Deputy asked me about young adolescent mental health services, YAMHS. I will ask for that file and have that review for the Deputy. She raised it with me previously. I have asked the HSE to report to me on it so that I can see what is going on in that respect because it appears to be flying against what I am trying to do. We want to have a register of services down to community level. We want to have a single access point that people can ring to find out who is in their area because nobody might have heard of YAMHS. Two per cent of the population may know about it but the other 80% needs to be made aware of it. Once we get that registry, which is complete, and the phone line, the single access point, established, all of these services will have to be put on a sustainable footing. They will have to be recognised but they will also have to come to the party with governance of a clinical and financial nature, corporate governance structures and all of that. There are some services that nobody knows how they originated or what they are doing. Does they involve talking to students in schools? I would have concerns about that. We have to make sure that these services have a proper level of governance but that single access point will force that and address the funding issue also over time. That is the plan.