Ms Laura Magahy:

They are absolutely needed. Through the enhanced community care fund, allied funds and the community care networks, there is funding for community services. There has been a bit of a lack of focus on the earlier stages, such as the talk therapies, which we would like to see scaled up. We invested in the likes of Jigsaw and other talk therapies, especially for young people, LGBTQ people, etc. I would like to see them scaled up. We are determining how they might be mainstreamed through the next phase. They showed very good results. Young people absolutely appreciate and need an instant response rather than being told to wait for a week or whatever for a more in-depth service. These approaches have been shown to work. We have embarked on scaling them up right across the country.