Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael) | Oireachtas source

I think it is really important that the HSE is very much involved in that. On our visit last week, it was the Department for Education and the NHS that were very much involved in the roll-out of this measure. I wish to ask about a proposal for a pilot scheme of the roll-out of counsellors in primary schools. What are the witnesses' views on that? I have changed my view on it, in that I am still in favour of it but not perhaps counsellors per se. I am not sure if any of the witnesses are aware of the Dorset model in the UK, which we visited last week. Would the witnesses like to see a similar model being rolled out in Ireland, where the workers are called practitioners rather than counsellors? If young people need counselling they are brought up to the next level.