Ms Mary Nolan:

The Deputy is correct that it is a lack of service provision. Those who are most vulnerable and deprived and live generationally under that umbrella are those who cannot access the services. The National Health Service, NHS, does not have provision for it and the Education Authority is not providing it. The responsibility gets passed from Department to Department, such as from health to education. If the young person reaches the age of 16 and has not had any of the service provision or youth support - that is what we are trying to provide - he or she ends up in either the social care system or the justice system.