Neasa Hourigan (Dublin Central, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

There are 204,000 people in third-level education. I am raising this in the context of us only spending 5% of our health budget on mental health and it should be 10%. We are only at half of the level of funding required. I am under the impression that as a population, approximately 25% have a diagnosable mental health issue. The WHO would say that among the youth, that is around 20% so in the context of those numbers, only 7% or 8% of people actually reach out for services. We would have to more than double our funding to even get close-----