Mr. Hugh Ahern:

I welcome that suggestion very much. There are certain organisations in Ireland that offer these services but many of them are provided by phone whereby a student must ring or text a number. Many others are online whereby a student must log on to a laptop.

Of course, it will be secure, but you may not get the time. The parents may come in on you or something like that. It would be good to have it in schools. It would not have to be based in school, but regionally. Maybe a representative would go to the schools once a week. That person would cover the local electoral areas. The person would be responsible, let us say, for the schools in the municipal district of Kanturk-Mallow. Maybe there could be a representative to cover the Mallow-Kanturk district rather than numerous representatives who would all be spread out. It would be the one professional dealing with that entire area and he or she might know what is happening in that area rather than someone different for a school, for instance, in Kanturk that may have the same issues as Mallow.