Mr. Mark Smyth:

The national accreditation of counselling services has recommended a full-time equivalent ratio of one counselling therapist psychologist per 1,000 students. We have a benchmark but, as far as I know, we do not have the data to see how far we are from that figure. Once we have the data, we need to engage with Government to say what the shortfall is and ask what the plan is to reach the benchmark.

We know what is recommended. We do not know what we currently have. One of the concerns is that even if we knew how many we needed, where we would get the staff to fill the gaps.