Mr. Joe McGrath:

There are counselling services in communities that people could access if they know who in the community is providing counselling services. We could ask our GP if there is something in our community that we could access, because it is important not to be going to the GP and that if we need a counselling service, we could go directly to the counselling service. A lot of people would not go to the GP clogging up his or her surgery when there are counselling services in the community. There are lots of different counsellors one could go to. There are different organisations out there. There are lots of them in the community if they are identified for people with intellectual disabilities. If people in the community open their mouths, they might get something in the community rather than having to go onto the HSE website to look to see what is in our locality all the time. Some of us do not have Internet connections in our houses and some of my members might not even have telephones. They may not have been able to afford to put the Internet or technology into their houses in order that they can access stuff in the community. It is very hard to ask your neighbours all the time if there is anyone they could recommend to you to have a chat with if you needed to.