Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 22 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Education and Skills

Mental Health Supports in Schools and Tertiary Education: Discussion (Resumed)

Photo of Rose Conway-WalshRose Conway-Walsh (Mayo, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

I am very conscious - even last night I attended a pyrite meeting in Westport - of what children are suffering in the long term in homes. As the pyrite and mica situations have gone for over a decade, children for their whole childhood have experienced fear and anxiety that was brought with watching your home crumbling. How do we support those children? The best that could be offered for County Mayo was an online service, which is wholly inadequate.

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