Ms Megan Reynolds:

Yes. We asked a question on whether respondents' mental health had been affected during Covid and the various answer options under "yes" were; "significantly", "somewhat", "a little" and "no". From that question, we were able to ascertain that 83% of young people agreed in some capacity that their mental health had been affected by Covid. Following on from that question, they were then asked whether they had availed of any services. Counselling was one option offered on the survey, which 9% of people said they had availed of. Some 15% stated they had availed of mental health services such as Jigsaw or SpunOut, etc. The remaining 73% stated "none of the above", which meant they were not reaching out to anybody to talk about how they were feeling.