Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 20 October 2021
Joint Committee On Health
Impact of Covid-19 on Children: Discussion
Mr. John Church:
It was a hypothesis. In our engagement with the children, they said it to us. We do not have actual numbers; we are only lucky that we have a service there for it. Another hypothesis might be that children are moving away from the telephone anyway. We have seen a slow decrease in telephone contact to online, but as that trend went way up, it was very clear that it was correlated with the lockdown. I am quite happy to stand over that hypothesis. If we did some research, I think it would show that. It makes perfect sense that some of the children who are contacting us, normally by telephone, would switch to online because they do not want to be overheard.
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