Ms M?ir?n N? Ch?ileachair:

There is no minimum age at which we can start to build positive mental health. One of our issues, and Ms Foley referred to it, is that only one post-primary school in five is delivering an SPHE curriculum. In primary school, we have 30 minutes per week dedicated to SPHE. That will change in our new curriculum framework. We can certainly build on skills and give skills to the children and pupils in all our classrooms. We can probably save people from waiting lists they do not need to be on by using other interventions but that still does not get away from the fact that services do not exist for people who have a mental health difficulty which cannot be coped with in the normal circumstance of life.