Mr. Ken Kilbride:

I will throw in a quick pitch for ourselves. The Senator asked about the gap between now and when services will be available. We see ourselves as the leading provider of so-called psychosocial supports in Ireland. We run support groups. We could run more if we had more funding.

We run parenting courses like the Changing Lives Initiative, which are funded by the HSE, through CAMHS. Again, we could do more. We run awareness talks. I did an awareness talk for Childrens Books Ireland last week on how it can support people coming to its service. We could do more on that. We run social events. As Ms Riordan said, the children and families with ADHD are not invited to birthday party or play dates, so we run social events.

We hold public events such as talks. We held one such event in Cork last month where 160 people turned up. Again, we will do similar in Dublin. There is a webinar coming up at the end of this month on why girls are not diagnosed with ADHD and another one on ADHD and finance. This year, we will run about 450 events. We could run more. Everything we advertise is oversubscribed on the day booking opens. Like many organisations funded through the HSE, we have not received a core increase in two or three years, but demand has doubled in that time. The number of calls increased from 3,000 to 6,000. We will get 250,000 visits to our website this year. We are maxed out in terms of organisation. If we got more support, we could do more to support people.